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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:45:49PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> 
> ----- 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?

That wouldn't be a -sws option, rather an option for the dxr3 stuff.
I'm pretty sure it's the dxr3 code inserting the scale filter when it
detects the wrong size.

Rich