[MPlayer-users] dvd, black and grey bars

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Jul 23, 2006, at 06.33, Julius Junghans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> playing dvds with mplayer mostly results into black bars at the top  
> and bottom
> of the screen

What's the original aspect ratio of your movie? Movies with aspect  
ratios that are wider than 16:9 have to be letterboxed to conform to  
the DVD spec. It's also possible you have a 16:9 movie, but it's  
letterboxed into a 4:3 video (some older movies did that).

> just below the top black bars are grey bars...same for the
> bottom bar. is there a way to get rid of them?

We would need to know a little more about the nature of these gray  
bars. What video-out are you using? What's the codec of the video?  
Things like that. It could help if you gave us a console dump.
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