[MPlayer-users] new mplayer user

[H du Plooy]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:14, Jack wrote:
> >mplayer movie.avi -zoom -x 1024 -y 768 -fs
>
> the -x and -y are unnecessary.  Although it's not mentioned in the man
> pages, when -zoom is used with -fs, it will scale it properly.  In fact,
> if you use -x and -y like that, it would make any video that's not 3:4
> look bad.

Thanks, I didn't know that!  I've always made sure that I have a proper 
graphics card and enough memory, even if the rest of the PC is a dog.  So 
I've never had to use anything else but -vo xv