[MPlayer-users] Monitor Aspect

[Ville Saari]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:26:17PM -0500, pheller at lessjunk.com wrote:

> If I specify "-monitoraspect 1.666", then the ratio is right, however there is a
> whole lot of extra space around the image; it could be scaled larger.

You probably have black bars above and below because they are part of the
picture and black bars on both sides added by mplayer because your screen
is wider than the picture (do you have black bars above and below when
playing the movie in non-fullscreen mode?).

If I'm right, then -vf crop is your friend.

-- 
 Ville