[mythtv-users] mplayer scaling

[Glenn Harris]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com> wrote:
> This might be a little OT, but I figure that lots of mythtv users are using
> mplayer and might know the answer.
>
> Here is the problem:
>
> I have a video file that has a resolution of 936x528 that I am trying to
> play on my LCD TV with a resolution of 1366x768.  I thought that since both
> the video and screen aspect ratios are 1.77 that mplayer would "upconvert"
> the video to fill the entire screen.  However, I am getting black bars on
> the top and bottom of the screen no matter what I do.  I've tried lots of
> different mplayer options (crop, aspect, etc), but I still can't get the
> desired results of the video filling the entire screen.  Here is my current
> mplayer command:
>
> mplayer -fs -zoom -vo xv -vf scale=1366x768
>
> I've been google'ing for the last two days... maybe I don't know what I
> should be looking for.
>
> Any advice, solutions, comments are appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

have you tried the -monitoraspect option?

using -fs and -monitoraspect=16:9 usually gives me the best results.

--Glenn