[MPlayer-users] Playing 1920x1080 on a smaller display

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Joey Parrish!

 On 2007.07.10 at 12:15:18 -0500, Joey Parrish wrote next:

> > When I try to play a 1920x1080 .mkv file on my notebook (1400x1050), it
> > scales down automatically, but the left side of the movie (looks like
> > the percentage that would have been off screen if it was full size) is
> > just solid pink.
> >
> > This is using -vo xv and with the fglrx driver (Radeon 200M) but it does
> > the same with the radeon and ati modules.
> >
> > I've tried to zoom and scale it in various different ways, but it
> > doesn't want to work.
> >
> > Anybody knows hy this happens?
> 
> Software scaling should fix it.  Try adding -vf scale=1400:-2 to your
> command line.

Software scaling to 1050p will eat a lot of cpu.. Actually I'd recommend
-vo gl:yuv=2 (would work only with fglrx) - not sure, but I guess 200M
should be able to handle it.

Also it could be bug in xv or driver, not in card itself. In that case,
xvidix could help, so try that too (not sure it'll work with fglrx
driver though, it doesn't for me, but it's worth to try with radeon
driver).

-- 

Vladimir