[MPlayer-users] How to fit video, in mplayer, to full screen keeping aspect ratio and adding the black bars - without stretching

[Murray Colpman]

On 02/02/11 19:04, film123 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello.
> Anyone know the command line to play a video in mplayer so that it fits the
> full screen (16:9) and automatically adds black bars top and bottom if
> required or right and left side if required.
> What I do now is add padding to each frame with  ffmpeg.
> Thanks, Barry
>
press "f" - if you're using a decent video output driver (eg xv)