[mythtv] [PATCH] (mythvideo) per-directory player command

[Michael T. Dean]

John Patrick Poet wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>>Both MPlayer and xine support on-the-fly resolution switching using the
>>X VidModeExtension.  When using the built-in xvidmode support, the
>>player will determine the best video mode to use (of all the available
>>modes you have configured in your XF86Config (or xorg.conf) file) based
>>on resolution and aspect ratio (and refresh rate?) of the video.  If
>>using Xv video out, the video will then be scaled to full-screen for the
>>selected resolution in the event none of the video modes is an exact
>>match for the video's resolution.
>>    
>>
>Interesting. I will give that a try.  What about aspect ratio, though?
>
>My TV is natively 4:3, but when fed a 1920x1080i signal it goes into a
>"vertical squeeze" mode resulting in a 16:9 aspect.
>
>I have mplayer's default config set up to think the monitor is 16:9, but
>feed it the "-monitoraspect 4:3" switch when playing 4:3 material.
>  
>
Good question, but I don't know the answer.  Unfortunately, although I 
also have a 4:3 TV, I do not have any widescreen videos to test.

So, were you able to determine whether it works?  If not, please let the 
list know--so your patch doesn't get skipped because of my post ;), and 
if so, I'd still be interested to know how it worked for you.

Mike