[mythtv-users] mplayer scaling

[Bill Williamson]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com>wrote:

> This might be a little OT, but I figure that lots of mythtv users are using
> mplayer and might know the answer.
>
> Here is the problem:
>
> I have a video file that has a resolution of 936x528 that I am trying to
> play on my LCD TV with a resolution of 1366x768.  I thought that since both
> the video and screen aspect ratios are 1.77 that mplayer would "upconvert"
> the video to fill the entire screen.  However, I am getting black bars on
> the top and bottom of the screen no matter what I do.  I've tried lots of
> different mplayer options (crop, aspect, etc), but I still can't get the
> desired results of the video filling the entire screen.  Here is my current
> mplayer command:
>
> mplayer -fs -zoom -vo xv -vf scale=1366x768
>
> I've been google'ing for the last two days... maybe I don't know what I
> should be looking for.
>
> Any advice, solutions, comments are appreciated.
>


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)
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