Hi,<br><br>if you're using mplayer, then don't forget the option <br>-monitoraspect <what-ever-it-is><br>If you try to watch a 16:9 on a 4:3 monitor, then you should use 4:3 or 1.3333 as a value to this option. If you have a 16:10 monitor, then use 1.6.<br><br>That should solve the problem with mplayer.<br>If you're using xine, cycle through different formats with the 'A' key and zoom in if needed with the 'Z' key (Shift+Z zooms out). You can probably automate this with xine in the config file or some place else.<br><br><br>J.<br><br><br><b><i>Rich West <Rich.West@wesmo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I'm having trouble getting this 'right', and was hoping that someone<br>might be able to point me in the right direction...<br><br>On one of our mythtv boxes (I have not tested against the other), the<br>internal MythTV video player tends to hiccup or skip when
playing the<br>video off of the network drives (this has become more apparent with the<br>later fixes releases from atrpms) almost as if it were having buffering<br>problems (others on the list have reported "me too" type of problems). <br>So, I thought I would try out using another player when displaying a DVD<br>Video (ISO), like mplayer and xine, to see if I could make it 'just work'.<br><br>I picked a real 16:9 aspect movie (one that identified itself as 1.78:1,<br>which works out to be 16:9) and tested with that. But, oddly, I hit<br>another issue... the aspect display didn't seem right. In this<br>instance, the picture should happily fill the screen with no black bars<br>at the top and bottom of the screen, but I'm seeing a heavily<br>letterbox'ed image with large bars at the top and bottom of the screen.<br><br>Interestingly enough, mplayer was the first one to give me an indication<br>that, perhaps, I have something set wrong within X. Now, I am no<br>mplayer
guru, but could this an indication of a missing mplayer option<br>or an incorrect X setup for DVD playback?<br><br>I checked the wiki and Jarod's "Tips-n-Tricks" page and tried various<br>options according to those (and other) pages, but I get the feeling like<br>I am missing something here (this command below is from Jarod's page,<br>the wiki gave an image with much bigger black bars).<br><br>-Rich<br><br><br>> [mythtv@mythtv2 ~]$ /usr/bin/mplayer -fs -vo xv<br>> /home/video/Kids/Sky_High.iso<br>> MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team<br>> CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2)<br>> CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1<br>> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.<br>> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory<br>> Can't init input joystick<br>><br>> Playing /home/video/Kids/Sky_High.iso.<br>> MPEG-PS file format detected.<br>> VIDEO:
MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0<br>> kbyte/s)<br>> ==========================================================================<br>> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough<br>> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)<br>> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...<br>> Opening video filter: [scale]<br>> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.<br>> Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.<br>> VDecoder init failed :(<br>> Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b<br>> Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))<br>> ==========================================================================<br>> ==========================================================================<br>> Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with
liba52<br>> Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform<br>> Using MMX optimized resampler<br>> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)<br>> Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)<br>> ==========================================================================<br>> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)<br>> Starting playback...<br>> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)<br>> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)<br>> Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>> VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12 [fs]<br>> [ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!<br>> [ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!<br>> [ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!<br>> [ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!<br>> [ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!<br>> [ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!<br>>
A: 0.7 V: 0.6 A-V: 0.024 ct: 0.020 12/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0<br>> demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching<br>> framerate.A: 2.4 V: 2.4 A-V: 0.018 ct: 0.072 55/ 52 11% 0% <br>> 1.7% 1 0<br>> Exiting... (Quit)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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