[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Pivoting

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:54:02PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2005/8/21, Matthias Wieser <mwieser at gmx.de>:
> > Am Sonntag, 21. August 2005 15:13 schrieb Ivan Kalvachev:
> [...]
> > > I think it is also possible to extract aspect from modeline (after all
> > > monitors do that too;)
> > 
> > The modline does not contain the aspect or the physical dimensions.
>  
> Look at http://xtiming.sf.net ,
> there is constrain aspect ration that is used in producing modeline
> calculations,
> so it should be possible to extract if from the modeline.

No, you're smoking crack. This is just to prevent you from entering
resolutions or finding results that don't match your desired aspect
(assuming square pixels). There's absolutely no way to get aspect
information from mode timings. (Actually VESA has some idiotic spec
about sync pulse lengths or something for different aspects, but no
one respects it..)

Rich