[mythtv-users] mplayer scaling

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Mike Holden <mythtv at mikeholden.org> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the replies...
>>>
>>>> have you tried the -monitoraspect option?
>>>
>>> Yes, but with no luck.  With the command  "mplayer -fs
>>> -monitoraspect=16:9
>>> video.avi" I get "Unknown option on the command line:
>>> -monitoraspect=16:9"
>>> Has this option been depricated?
>>
>> leave out the "="
>>
>> -monitoraspect 16:9
>>
>> counterintuitive to those used to the linux commandline
>
> Nope!
>
> Those used to the Linux commandline would know that in general, a single
> hyphen means no "=", but 2 hyphens require an "=" :-)

they would also know that a single hyphen means a succession of one
letter options like ls -lR (== ls -l -R )

And that two hyphens means a long option like --monitoraspect