[MPlayer-users] vf expand & menu problems

[Ulion]

2007/10/8, Sven Faerber <svenfaerber at web.de>:
> I assume, this is a known issue, as I found discussions on this subject in
> some forums. But since this seems to be unresolved, I have to ask the list.
> When using mplayer's osd menu with -vf expand, the black areas are not redrawn
> when exiting the menu.
> I use
> [code]
> mplayer -vo xv -ontop -mixer-channel Vol -monitoraspect 16:10 -quiet -vf
> scale=1440:-2,expand=1440:900 -menu -af volnorm=1 -lircconf ~/.mplayer/lircrc
> ~/.mplayer/Shades.mpg -menu-startup -nocache -font /usr/share/mplayer/fonts/font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-28-iso-8859-1/font.desc
> xset dpms force off
> [/code]
> bound to a key on my remote to open videos for playback on my 16/10 display,
> where 4/3 material is *sort of* autocropped by aspect.
> The only reason for the -vf expand portion of the command is material with a
> wider aspect than 16/10 like movies or modern tv-shows in 16/9.
>
> Is the a way around that? maybe some unheardof videofilter "aspectcrop" I've
> been waiting for for quite some time or a way to redraw the black parts of
> the screen, added by -vf expand.

That's because the expand filter. One way to work around it is to
enable ass with menu at same time (add -ass to command line). With the
ass filter, the black region get updated after menu closed.

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Ulion