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#1 2009-05-22 03:16:22

colbert
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[solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

I just did an upgrade, I tried mplayer with a bunch of video files and it keeps rescaling them, getting rid of the black bars on top and bottom, kind of "upscaling" which I don't want. I can't figure out how to stop it from doing this:

┌─[ 23:13 ][ /media/stuff/tv/HD/Heroes/S01 ]
└─> mplayer -ao alsa:device=plug=dmix6 -channels 6 -delay -0.1 -fs Heroes.2006.S01E15.720p.HDDVD.x264-ESiR.mkv
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
137 audio & 296 video codecs

Playing Heroes.2006.S01E15.720p.HDDVD.x264-ESiR.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3), -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [avc1]  1280x720  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 640.0 kbit/13.89% (ratio: 80000->576000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12  [fs]
xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0
A: 399.4 V: 399.4 A-V:  0.005 ct:  0.090   0/  0 43%  1%  0.8% 0 0 
Exiting... (Quit)
┌─[ 23:13 ][ /media/stuff/tv/HD/Heroes/S01 ]
└─>

And I don't have anything in my ~/.mplayer/config that relates to this, only a default alsa output setting.

TIA for any help smile

Last edited by colbert (2009-05-28 00:21:22)

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#2 2009-05-22 14:24:28

Mogger
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Re: [solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

I have the same problem. Don't know if it happened after the upgrade or not.

I also noticed that this has something to do with Twinview/Xinerama. When the second monitor was disabled (in xorg.conf), full screen in mplayer worked as expected.

Glad to see someone with the same problem, I was just about to create a thread asking for help. -zoom, -vo xv and -xineramascreen 1 didn't help.

EDIT: By the way. I don't know if it's related, but now the mplayer window appear centered on the both monitors. Before it always appeared centered on the secondary screen (left).

Last edited by Mogger (2009-05-22 18:45:17)

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#3 2009-05-25 00:15:24

colbert
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Re: [solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

Yes Mogger, I just tested and after trying for quite some time in #mplayer on Freenode (IRC), I just went into nvidia-settings and disabled my second monitor, and fullscreen works fine with no stretching and there are the black bars, it's exactly as normal. This is very strange, it never happened before the recent upgrade sad

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#4 2009-05-25 10:48:12

Mogger
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Re: [solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

So you use Twinview too? Interesting. At least that's a starting point.

Did you notice any difference in mplayer's startup position? As I said in my previous post, my mplayer window now appears in the middle of both screens - maybe it doesn't properly detect that I'm using two screens? Before it always appeared centered on my left screen.

By the way, my card is pretty old (GeForce FX 5200) so I use the nvidia-173xx driver.

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#5 2009-05-27 14:17:26

japetto
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Registered: 2006-07-02
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Re: [solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

I have the same problem here as well (Twinview + Mplayer = spanned fullscreen).

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#6 2009-05-27 14:27:33

Mogger
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Re: [solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

Found a workaround: use the -screenh and -screenw option. In my case,

mplayer -screenh 1024 -screenw 1280

Still wonder if there are any 'good' solutions...

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#7 2009-05-28 00:21:10

colbert
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Re: [solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

Mogger, that's great! It does work for me, using -screenh 1200 -screenw 1920. Much better than having to disable the right monitor in nvidia-settings each time I want to watch a video smile Thanks! Hopefully it won't be necessary forever, but hey it works... awesome! big_smile

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