[mythtv-users] mplayer scaling

[Steve Hodge]

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 "=" :-)


Actually GNU style options with '--' prefix usually allow either '=' or
whitespace.
Traditional Unix (single letter, '-' prefix) and X toolkit style (word
option names, '-' prefix) don't usually allow '='.

So the simplest rule is to never use '=' at all!

Regards,
Steve
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