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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:12:08PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:54:55 +0200
> Matthias Wieser <mwieser at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > It should not be the case that mplayer by default produces distorted 
> > pictures on most modern computers only because there are some 
> > non-square-pixel people who don't want to properly configure their X11 
> > server.
> 
> Just to make it clear why mplayer assumes 4:3 aspect instead
> of square pixels and that it was not a random choice for
> some shitheads who are not willing to configure their X server:
> 
> At the time when this code was written, it was quite common
> to use a non-square pixel resolution to get most space out of
> a CRT given a certain pixel clock (ie the maximum pixel clock
> the monitor could cope with). This was necessary as 15" CRTs
> were the biggest monitors "normal" people had. TFTs weren't
> an issue as the only TFTs one could afford were those in
> laptops. 

Well, I think it is time to rethink this and switch to assuming square
pixels.  TFTs are becoming the norm rather than the exception.  Which
CRT resolutions do not offer square pixels?  I'm only aware of
1280x1024.

Diego