[MPlayer-users] Help needed for using mplayer with freevo

[rcooley]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:00:55 +0200
Sebastian Kaps <seb at toyland.sauerland.de> wrote:

You've got quite a strange setup there...  Mind telling me what video
card/device you are using, that acts so strange?

> I need mplayer to play videos in a 1024x768 pixel sized window in the
> upper left corner of my screen

Simple enough:  mplayer -xy 1024 -geometry 0:0 

Since you're using -vo x11, you'll need to add "-zoom" to that, so it
does software scaling.

> Ideally video should be shrinked horizontally by a factor 0.75,
> allowing me to use the 16:9 mode of my tv.

Not exactly sure what you're looking for, but probably either
"-monitoraspect 16:9"  or just "-aspect 16/9"  will do what you need.  

If not, look into the "-x" and "-y" options.