[MPlayer-users] fullscreen, tv

[MacNean C. Tyrrell]

Ivo wrote:

>On Wednesday 20 October 2004 05:38, MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote:
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>>I use mplayer to play my xvids on my tv, through mythtv.
>>The problem i'm having is this.
>>If i run with the option -V x11, there is no problems
>>but if i run with -V xv,
>>it's like it's widescreen.  So if my xvid is widescreen already (i like
>>it like that personnaly, i know a waste of space, but what i like)
>>so what i mean is mplayer fills up horizontally all the way, but
>>vertically it leaves a bottom and top black par, that even if i play a
>>fullscreen xvid
>>still looks fullscreen, and when i play widescreen, it adds to it making
>>it look very bad.  I've even tried dvd's and the same problem.  I was
>>having the same problem with xine, my preferred player for dvd's, but i
>>just had to change the aspect ratio to 4:3.  Haven't figured it out yet
>>for mplayer.  Any help?
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>I have some trouble understanding what you actually mean, but anyway:
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>Forcing the aspect to a certain ratio can be done with -aspect 4/3 for 
>example.
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>If you want to remove black bars of a letterboxed recording, you can use -vf 
>cropdetect and -vf crop.
>
>If you want to add black bars to a widescreen recording w/o black bars, you 
>can use -vf expand. See manpage for details.
>
>--Ivo
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Thank you so much.  I just fixed the problem.  I had been using 
-monitoraspect 4:3, but that wasn't working and aparently in my reading 
of the manual i missed the aspect option so didn't even know it 
existed.  But i put that option in and it works fine.  I didn't even 
know that mplayer could also crop.  Very cool, gonna experiement with 
that.  Thanks again.