[MPlayer-users] [Bugreport]

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 12 May 2002, Attila Kinali wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sat, 11 May 2002 21:41:18 +0200
> Dominik Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Nope, mplayer does not do this... i guess it's sawfish who remembers it.
> > 
> > So you're saying sawfish is forcing mplayer to resize its video window?
> > Jeez. Can any sawfish/GNOME with sawfish users out there confirm this?
> 
> It was a guess... i know some WMs have such features as
> window position remembering (or how you would call it)

I've just found something in ~/.sawfish/window-history. I'll look into
this.

> > But why does mplayer keep movie aspect ratio on some graphics cards
> > and doesn't on others? Is that a driver issue?
> 
> Well, the thing is, mplayer keeps correct aspect if you use -fs
> or -xy, but it does not if you or another program resizes the window.

OK, so it's a feature. Why not add an option to do it? I.e. -keepaspect?
Yes, I know - do it yourself and send a patch. :-) Perhaps I will, if
I find time to do it.

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>