[mythtv-users] mplayer resolution wrong on TV

[Ben Lancaster]

On 6 Apr 2007, at 15:09, Tom Weichmann wrote:

> On Friday 06 April 2007 01:33, Mitch Gore wrote:
>> try using -monitoraspect 16:9 or -monitoraspect 4:3, which ever is  
>> correct
>> for you.
>>
>> Mitchell
>>
>> On 4/6/07, Tom Weichmann <tomcw at adelphia.net> wrote:
>>> dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable 0
>>>
>>> nvtv -r 768,576 -s Large -C SVIDEO -t -S NTSC
>>>
>>> mythfrontend -nw --geometry 760x576+10+0
>>>
>>> nvtv -r 1024,768 -s small -m -S NTSC
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> -----
>>> ------
>>>
>>> The problem I have is that when I just start mythfrontend on my PC
>>> everything
>>> is fine, but when I change to the TV out, everything works fine  
>>> except
>>> for mplayer when I am playing a movie from mythvideo.  I see that  
>>> you can
>>> set mplayer arguements in the settings menu, but I tried adding - 
>>> x 760 -y
>>> 576 to
>>> the default arguements, but that didn't work.  The video was the  
>>> right
>>> size
>>> to fit the screen, but the 16x9 video was distorted to fit this  
>>> window.
>>>
>>> How do others handle starting on both PC and TV out?  Does anyone  
>>> know
>>> how to
>>> get the mplayer window to size correctly?
>>>
>>> SuSE 10.2
>>> MythTV 0.20
>>> Mplayer 1.0 rc1
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tom Weichmann
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>
> Mitchell,
>
> Thanks, I tried your suggestion and I still get a distorted  
> picture.  Does
> anyone have another idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Weichmann

I had similar problems, below is the stuff I have in my mplayer.conf.

The 'vf' line might be of interest to you; this specifies to scale  
the video to the given pixel dimensions. There seem to be a load of  
synonymous output options (eg vf=dsize=x:y:z and screenw/screenh),  
just play around and see what works for you.

$ cat /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
# run full-screen
fs=yes

# use XVideo for video output
vo=xv

# my display is 16:9
monitoraspect=16:9

vf=scale=1360:768,dsize=1360:768:0
screenw=1360
screenh=768
display=:0