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quoth the Hemmann, Volker Armin: |
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> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 00:02, Nick Rout wrote: |
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> > I am not sure that you are at all correct. With mplayer I can resize a |
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> > window with my mouse and the aspect is retained (ie i drag the window |
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> > wider and it also gets taller). There are certainly no restrictions like |
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> > 100/200% - any size seems to work. |
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> > |
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> > And aspect seems to work well when resizing to fullscreen too. If it is |
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> > in some form of letterbox (eg 16:9) you get black lines above and below, |
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> > just as expected. |
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> > |
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> > Some media formats (avi?) have a place in the header to specify aspect |
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> > ratio, whereas others seem to leave it to the player to guess from the |
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> > frame size. If the header doesn't specifiy then the player can get |
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> > confused, but mplayer has the -aspect switch which seems to fix this on |
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> > the rare occasion that it is an issue. And it is not well hidden, |
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> > searching the man page for "aspect" turns it up. |
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> > |
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> > I see that there is also a switch called "-nokeepaspect": |
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> > |
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> > -nokeepaspect |
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> > Do not keep window aspect ratio when resizing windows. Only works with |
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> > the x11, xv, xmga, xvidix, directx video output drivers. Furthermore |
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> > under X11 your window manager has to honor window aspect hints. |
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> > |
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> > Maybe this is turned on in your machine? |
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> > |
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> > Check /etc/mplayer.conf (system wide) and ~/.mplayer/* |
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> |
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> I do not have this options in any config, which are both the defaults one, |
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> but when I resize the (g)mplayer window with the mouse, the aspect ratio is |
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> totally ignored. Which is pretty annoying. |
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I have the exact same behavior here. All the options seem to imply that |
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keeping the aspect ratio is the default, but it just isn't working like that. |
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All the options in the man page involving 'aspect' describe how to change |
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this default behavior (which isn't happening...) and logically negating them |
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in mplayer.conf doesn't appear to work in the few attempts I've made. |
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I'm using kde, perhaps it is interference by the WM at work here... |
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To tell the truth though, this doesn't really bother me too much since I |
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usually only use 'Double' or fullscreen size. It is odd though. |
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-d |
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-- |
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org |
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." |
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- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 |
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