On 8 November 2010 17:02, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/11/10 12:50, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >> >> On 8 November 2010 13:59, lucian orasanu<o_lucian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> how about moving to mplayer instead of xine-lib, is not maintained >>> very well any more? >>> >> My personal experience with mplayer is that it lacks proper aspect >> ratio detection or guessing based on source that does not contain the >> correct info. xine-lib seems to handle this much better. Also >> automatic cropping is a nice feature that works quite well in the >> vdr-xineliboutput plugin (even with vdpau). Most people doesn't seem >> to mind that the output is stretched or squeezed incorrectly, but I >> do. I prefer it that a circle appears to be that and not in the >> elliptical form. > > What??! You can tell mplayer the exact ratio of your monitor and the > exact ratio of the video on the command line and it correctly calculates > how to display it. vdr-sxfe and vdr-fbfe have an equivalent of > -monitoraspect but xine-ui and gxine don't, or didn't last time I > looked. Instead they query the display's dimensions from the X server, > which often gives bogus information, or xine doesn't use the information > correctly. For example, X thinks my Sony TV (1366x768 physically, but > uses a 1360x768 native resolution, connected by HDMI), measures 16m x 9m > (yes, metres!) so I override it with: I was referring to the source and not to my output display. > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "32in TV" > #DisplaySize 708 398 # real size > DisplaySize 320 180 # lie to avoid tiny fonts > Option "UseEdiDpi" "false" > Option "DPI" "96 x 96" > Option "DPMS" "false" > EndSection > > But when I tried xine it was OK windowed, while in full-screen mode it > scaled and applied letterboxing as if for a 4:3 display for some reason > :-(. > > With xine you can override the aspect ratio of the video stream too. It > has the advantage over mplayer that you can do it on the fly, but the > disadvantage that it only has a few presets with names that don't > indicate what the aspect ratio actually is in numbers. > > -- > TH * http://www.realh.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
