[MPlayer-users] DivX and DXR3 Aspect Ratio

[David Holm]

It sounds to me like this file has been encoded in the wrong aspect. A
monitor can always adapt to the correct aspect but a tv is very limited
when it comes to resolutions. I'm not sure I can do anything about this.

//David

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 23:38, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> DivX .avi files play on my television vertically stretched; the aspect
> ratio is wrong. This is not a problem when I use the Xv video output
> driver to my monitor. The DXR3 driver output when I play gives either
> "16:9" or "4:3" (if I force it) aspect ratio's, neither of which are
> correct. Is there anything I can do to get the correct aspect ratio, or
> will I have to decode the DivX file into MPEG-2 ahead of time?
> 
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> Michael Halcrow                                | mhalcrow at ee.byu.edu
> Research Assistant, Network Security Lab       | Dept. of Comp. Science
>                                                | Brigham Young University
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