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

[Ulrich Schweitzer]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 11:22, Sebastian Kaps wrote:

> This does not work. Currently mplayer is launched by freevo like this:

What is freevo, by the way?

> /usr/local/bin/mplayer -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 \
>  -screenw 1024 -screenh 768 -fs -slave -ao alsa:mmap:device=default \
>  -ac hwac3, -v -vo x11 -cache 5000 -nofs -xy 1024  -aspect 16:9 \
>  -geometry 0:0 -zoom -novm -vf pp=de /path/to/movie
>
> This shows the movie in a 1024x??? sized window in the upper left
> corner of my screen.
>
> When I add "-vf expand=1024:768:::1", then I get a 1600x1600 pixel
> window with the movie centered inside. I have no idea why.

Try leaving out the -xy 1024 option and use 
-vf pp=de,scale=1024:-2,expand=1024:768:::1
I'm not sure if this will clash with the -aspect 16:9, so you better test 
without it first.

Ulrich
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