[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre-bugreport, can't stop software scaling

[Sam Liddicott]

----- Original Message -----
From: "D Richard Felker III" <dalias at aerifal.cx>
To: <mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] pre-bugreport, can't stop software scaling

> > This is regardless of -zoom -nozoom or -fs or -nofs, or -xy 1, etc, I
can't
> > stop MPlayer output boasting that it is using bicubic software scaler to
add
> > about 12 pixels to the width and colourspace convert.
>
> You could use -vop expand yourself to add the 12 pixels. Then the
> scale plugin should not be needed.

This is a good tip.
Eric Jorgensen of dxr3-devel says:
>There are a lot of conditions where mplayer insists on prescaling video,
and I
>haven't been able to find a commandline option for "never use software
scaling".

Is it worth adding an -sws option meaning to use the expand output filter to
get whatever size is needed; i,e, don't scale but pad?

Sam