[MPlayer-users] aspect ratio options ignored

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 18 April 2006 at 23:37, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:02:15AM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:47:08PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to watch a DVD and the display aspect ratio is wrong. I've
> > > tried to change it with -x, -y, -xy, -aspect, -vf aspect, etc., and
> > > none of these have any effect. Here is the command:
> > > 
> > > mplayer dvd://10 /dev/dvd -alang ja -slang en -zoom -aspect 16:9 >& mplayer.out
> > 
> > 1) this command is wrong. After dvd://10 there is /dev/dvd that doesn't
> > make sense. probably you mean to use -dvd-device /dev/dvd, but /dev/dvd
> > is the default so it's not necessary.
> 
> Well, the DVD played fine, just at the wrong aspect. Are you saying
> that the command I gave instructs mplayer to play two things in
> succession, and that the aspect options only apply to the second?

Yes, that's exactly what you've done. If you want the options to have
global effect, put them before any media sources to play in the command
line.

Regards,
R.

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