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

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:11:53PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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.

320x480, 360x240, 360x480, ... all of Gabu's EGA and VGA MODE-X modes.
:))

Rich