[MPlayer-users] watching 4:3 encoded 16:9 stuff fullscreen

[RC]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:09:23 +0100
"hakai" <bone-idle at web.de> wrote:

> is there any way to zoom the movie to the screen-width while keeping
> the  original aspect ratio (this would crop some of the black bars
> obviously,  like in mpc's "touch window from outside") in fullscreen
> mode. i'm using  mplayer 1.0rc1 on winxp sp2, vo=directx,
> monitoraspect=16:10

You can use -vf crop if you want to figure out the crop dimentions
manually before playback.  You can use -panscanrange and use the panscan
buttons to zoom-in on playback as you like.  Or you can fully automate
it with -vf dsize (can do "touch window from outside" just as you want).