[mythtv-users] mplayer scaling

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 18:48:19 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> Bill Williamson wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. you shouldn't need "scale,"
>>> 2. although you might need "monitoraspect"
>>> 3. your tv is running at 1360x768, not 1366x768.  No mainstream drivers
>>> allow for not-divisible-by-8 resolutions, so you lose 3 pixels to the
>>> left
>>> and right (this is for everyone with a "720" lcd tv which is really
>>> 1366x768)
>>>
>> Actually, my TV does run at 1366x768, and that's what the Edid from it
>> says. I do, however, run xorg with 1360x768. There is a small black margin
>> on the RHS, but we can live with that.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Perkins
>>
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>
>
> I just wanted to follow up on this as I am still not able to have certain
> video fill the entire screen using mplayer even thought they have a 16:9
> aspect ration.
>
> I was able to change the resolution to 1080i (1920x1080) and still no dice.
> Since this only occurs on certain videos, I guess I'll just live with it.
> For reference, the latest mplayer command I am using is:
>
> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -ao alsa:device=iec958 -ac hwdts,hwac3, -aspect
> 16:9

-monitoraspect 16:9 (in case it is confused)


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