[MPlayer-dev-eng] vo_sdl aspect

[Felix Buenemann]

On Friday, 28. September 2001 10:50, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > On Thursday, 27. September 2001 17:14, Ivan Kalvatchev wrote:
> > > > I now assume the following: if video height is non
> > > > 4:3 I enlarge the video
> > > > horizontally so it's 4:3 again. This IMHO should be
> > > > ok with non-square pixel
> > > > dvd (720x576), vcd (352x288) and svc (480(?)x576).
> > >
> > > I hope you don't meen it. Tell me what gona happen on
> > > DVD movie that is 16:9 aspect, square pixel?? Smash
> > > the screen? This is wrong assumption and you better
> > > don't implement aspect until command line switches are
> > > done.
> >
> > it'll be resized to 768x576 and then passed further on to aspect resize
> > code. Of course this isn't enough for anamorphic dvd, my Matrix DVD needs
> > about 1004x576 to get correct aspect.
>
> Please - if people are fiddling with the aspect handling in mplayer, be
> careful and remember that some people have video output modes that are non
> square.
>
> For instance - some of us (or me, at least) use output to TV.  My TV is
> widescreen, where the 720x576 output mode DOES display as 4:3 ratio, and
> when in widescreen, 720x576 displays 16:9.
>
> So make sure that there is a way to take account for non-square output
> modes, as per the style of my (anknowledged incomplete) patch some time
> ago.
>
hmm, interesting, I think we shuld workout the aspect stuff for libvo2 
together, I wasn't aware of this fact.

> Thanks,
> Steve


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