[MPlayer-users] why does scale ignore the command line??

[Felipe Bergo]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> > why does mplayer rescale the movie? what erm.. "rite" does it have to do
> > this? if i say I want those scale values surely it should enforce that!
> >
> > i've tried also adding -noaspect but that then simply enforces the default
> > 720x576 ratio!
>
> The scale filter preserves the aspect because this is normally the
> correct thing to do. Why are you using the scale filter at all if you
> have hardware scaling?? Just use -x and -y to set the size you want it
> to be hardware-scaled to, or use -vf dsize=w:h to control this. Or use
> -aspect.

He missed the -zoom parameter that enables software scaling. See the -zoom
entry on the man page and the examples on the man page.

-- Felipe