[MPlayer-users] 12 thoughts about MPlayer

[Peter Magnusson]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Felix Buenemann wrote:

> > Some PAL SVCD and PAL VCD will get wrong aspect ratio, at least in
> > 1600x1200. I use vo=xmga. Where can I upload an example so you can
> > judge for yourself whats wrong?
> upload to mplayer ftp site, it's in DOCS/bugreports.html, you should chooses

Rollergirl - Geisha Dreams (miapit00-mkv).5MB.of.orginal.m2v
Rollergirl - Geisha Dreams (miapit00-mkv).5MB.of.orginal.txt

@ ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming now.

> scenes where it's visible that aspect is wrong, also there are some videos
> encoded with bad aspect, but I'll check (I even have anamorphic dvd coded

Yes, i think this is encoded with bad aspect.

> MPlayer uses aspect info aswell as a default monitor aspect of 4:3 so it
> _should_ be fine even at non 4:3 resolutions like 1280x1024,k of course video

I use 1600x1200 so its 4:3.

> Windows Media Player has no real aspect code, it eg. displays NTSC SVCD at
> 480x480 instead of 640x480 in windowed mode.

And in fullscreen?

I was so long time ago that i used windows for playing videos so i cant
remember exactly, but im quite sure that i never saw a video that had
wrong aspect in media player.