[MPlayer-users] Monitor Aspect Ratio

[Stephen Davies]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Adam Nielsen wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > He's suggesting to get it from the physical dimensions of the
> > screen (raster), which X can get from the monitor
> 
> You can do that?  I thought that's what he might've been thinking, but I was 
> unaware that there are any other methods to obtain the screen
> size/dimensions - is this sort of info available in the data you can get from 
> the monitor via DDC?  In which case it would only work with relatively new 
> displays anyway...

It comes back from the monitor with DDC, like you say.  My 17" SGI
monitor supports that.

If your monitor doesn't support it, you can put the sizes in your
XF86Config file.

Steve