[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] SDL widescreen modes

[Felix Buenemann]

On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:06, Klokan Petr Pridal wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:47:43AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 July 2002 14:40, Klokan Petr Pridal wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > > Besides the fact that the code is junk (it has some obvious bugs if
> > > > > I saw correctly, eg = vs. ==), what's the use of it?
> > > >
> > > > Btw. I think my answer sounds a bit rude, wasn't meant to, sorry!
> > >
> > > There was really this error. I'm ashamed, now I got a lammer stamp :-(.
> > > I hope it's not forever. Thanks for your check-up, so the error was not
> > > published yet.
> > >
> > > Repaired patch is included.
> >
> > This one looks OK, but I still don't know what's the use of it.
> >
> > Can you please explain your setup and give an example of a movie
> > resolution and which mode would be chosen with your code and which mode
> > with the old code.
>
> For example (I remember, because I'm not near the computer with patched
> version):
>
> Video file:
> Standard divx avi encoded from 16:9 video dvd resized to 640x360.
>
> All available modes on widescreen display on TiBook:
> Mode: 0:  1152 x 768
> Mode: 1:  1024 x 768
> Mode: 2:  896 x 600
> Mode: 3:  800 x 600
> Mode: 4:  720 x 480
> Mode: 5:  640 x 480
>
> With old code this will use 640x480 (There are black bars on widescreen
> display on all four sides: top, bottom, left, right) New patched code will
> use:
>
> SET Mode: 4:  720 x 480
>
> So on the display are only small top and bottom black bars.
> If there are no extra widescreen modes available, no change in choosing of
> modes will happend.
hmm, please test the following, measure the size of the display and then add a 
-monitoraspect horizontalsize:verticalsize and see if scaling is better then 
(no vertical black bars should occur for widescreen movies).

> Klokan

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