On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:17:35AM -0700, Peter McGuire wrote: > - Running on MAC OS X (10.3 and up) > - Fullscreen > - Scaled to ~75% of the system display size > - Remaining space is filled in with black > - Video is centered > > To accomplish this, I'm using the following command (example system > has a display size of 1280x854): > > mplayer -vf scale=960:-2,expand=1280:854 -sws 0 -framedrop -fs video.avi > > This does what I want and is fine on a faster machine with decent > graphics support, but the scale causes video lag on slower machines. > > Is there another approach to this problem that would allow slower > machines to accomplish this task? Expand to 4/3 of the original video size (without scaling). Alternatively try the -panscan... options, if they are supported on OSX.
