[MPlayer-users] Problem with xv and -wid since r27961

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:46:30AM +0100, RVM wrote:
> BTW, it seems there's also a similar problem with x11. Actually it seems to be 
> an old problem, it's even present in mplayer 1.0rc1.
> 
> When using -wid and x11 as vo, the video displayed by mplayer doesn't always 
> fill the -wid window, it draws the video keeping the aspect ratio of the 
> video, leaving unpainting areas. This doesn't happen with the rests of vo's 
> (xv, gl, directx...).

That is a completely different issue, x11 does not provide hardware
scaling, so you must enable software scaling with -zoom.
x11 actually does _not_ keep aspect, try -aspect 3 and you will see it
actually keeps the original resolution, not the aspect-scaled one.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger