[MPlayer-users] Re: Changing aspect ratio while playing a file

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:42:29AM +0100, Sebastian Kaps wrote:
> Hi Rich!
> 
> >> Why? If I use "mplayer -monitoraspect 16:9" on a 4:3 video, mplayer
> >> scales it down horizontally. There's no way to do this without losing
> > No it does not. It scales it way up both horizontally and vertically,
> > then your tv-out device downscales vertically and band-limits
> > horizontally.
> 
> When you run "mplayer -nofs -monitoraspect 16:9" on a 4:3 video, you can
> see that the height of the picture stays the same as with
> "-monitoraspect 4:3" but the width changes by a factor of 0.7.

What I said remains correct. Look at the mplayer output if you don't
believe me.

Rich