[MPlayer-users] 12 thoughts about MPlayer

[Peter Magnusson]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Felix Buenemann wrote:

> The file is encoded with bad aspect, as the mpeg header says it's 4:3 aspect,
> but it really is 16:9 aspect. This is not our fault. You can override the
> files encoded aspect buy giving -aspect 16:9 on commandline.

Ok. I thought you guys could do some magic so it will autodetect when its
wrong aspect in the header :)

> in fs it streched the svcd I've thrown at it to fullscreen, which was correct
> in that case, however wmp has no mpeg2 functionality of itself, so this is

Could that be done with mplayer too?

> > 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.
> Probably you never watched svcd with wmp? =)

Not many or for a long time.