[MPlayer-users] feature request: video window to retain aspect on resize

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:18:36 +0100 (BST)
Chris Phillips <chris at thirtythreeandathird.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> can i ask for an option to make the video output window preserve the 
> aspect ratio when it is resized. i'm aware that the video itself stays to 
> aspect, but it'd be really handy if the containing window then also 
> resized to fit around the video properly.

This was requested a few times, though noone implemented it.
Maybe because noone know how to do it and it wasnt important enough
to search for it. (Any volunteer is welcome).

 > also are there any plans to enable channel presets for viewing tv? having 
> to use h and k to manually retune the channel each time is a bit 
> prohibitive, although obviously not a problem with mencoder. then again 
> it'd be nice to be able to encode from preset=2 rather than channel=62. 
> maybe these presets could be bound to the F? keys? I'd love to be able to 
> use mplayer instead of xawtv, but that's not practical yet. And i'm also 
> aware that you're not really that fussed about the tv side of things 
> anyway.

Hmm... Ask the developers :)

		Attila Kinali


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