[MPlayer-users] A 1:1 rendition, please

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 29 December 2007 at 02:55, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What commandline options can I use with mplayer to guarantee that it will 
> render one display pixel for every pixel in the file?
> 
> I ask because I just tried to play a 1920x1080 file on a 1920x1200 display, 
> and had to explicitly add:
> 
> -monitoraspect 16:10
> 
> ...to make it look anything like right - otherwise, mplayer was rendering 
> the image vertically compressed, more like a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. I have no 
> idea how mplayer arrived at the conclusion that this was correct. Visually 
> it looked like it was assuming a 4:3 display, which I can't see is a very 
> sensible default, but regardless - is there any way to guarantee 1:1 
> playback?

-monitoraspect 4:3 was the default a long time ago. Now the default is
-monitorpixelaspect 1. You're probably using some ancient version or you have
an incorrect setting in your configuration somewhere.

Regards,
R.

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