[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech slave.txt,1.18,1.19

[Sascha Sommer]

On Friday 17 September 2004 18:34, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Sascha Sommer writes:
> > On Friday 17 September 2004 18:16, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 05:39:01PM +0200, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > > > CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS
> > > >
> > > > Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/tech
> > > > In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv8298/DOCS/tech
> > > >
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > > 	slave.txt
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > runtime aspect switching, patch by Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage .
> > > > org>
> > >
> > > huh, was this applied?!?
> > > i thought we all agreed it was a bad patch!
> >
> > We all agreed that it may not work for every filter chain.
> > However it definitly works for the simple ones and it is usefull for some
> > frontends.
>
> At the very least a warning should be added to the documentation then.
>

What about

switch_ratio [<value>]
    Change aspect ratio at runtime. Value is the new aspect ratio expressed
    as a float (e.g. 1.77778 for 16/9).
    There might be problems with some video filters.

Sascha