[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] change aspect ratio in gtk gui

[Ingo Brückl]

Stephen Sheldon wrote on Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:36:13 -0700:

> When I try to change the aspect ratio in the gtk gui, gmplayer often
> crashes. [...]When it does work, it restarts the video. gnome-mplayer and
> smplayer can change the aspect ratio of a running video on the fly. So can
> the win32 gui. I compared what was happening in the two gui's, and came up
> with this patch. I think the crash that you see changing aspect ratios is
> really the crash that you see when you try to play a video again in the
> same instance of gmplayer.

I've never experienced any problems or even a crash with changing the aspect
ratio. The GUI does it on the fly while playing without any restart.

We should figure out why your version of the GUI behaves that strangely.

Ingo