#13 Wide screen?

[Anonymous]

It is a wonderful player.

I am an 17" new-Imac user.
As you know, it's screen is wide.
But since there's no 'wide view' option in mlayer, full screen is distorted.
So, I cannot make good use of the merit of Wide screen.
Thanks in advance for any comment or upgrading of mplayer.

Good luck.

[Jan Volf]

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I didn't tested MPlayer on LCD display and then I do not
know how the fullscreen behaves on it. You have to be more
descriptive and write down what exactly hapens and in
exactly which cases it hapens. Just write how it is
distorted (wider or taller than it should be?). Try to use
use aditional parameters "-aspect 16:9" or "-aspect 4:3" and
see how it changes in the FS playback (this is supposed to
be set by Aspect ratio menu, but it accidentaly doesn't work
in the last release).
I don't see any reason for mplayer to distort the picture in
fullscreen while in windowed mode is all OK unless your
system by default distort fullscreen picture to in some manner.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I have the same question but a few things to add.

I have a 17" powerbook (it has a 1440x900 resolution). And my picture is not
being distorted, but when in full screen it is not wide enough. The screen
looks just like when I switch the computer into a 1024 x 768 resolution (not
stretched). In the earlier MPlayer v.1.1 it works almost perfectly but has
about a 1/2 wide black bar on the left. But as for the new one all I can seem
to get is normal (not wide) 1024x768 full screen. The additional parameters
seem to try to fix it but, all 4:3 does is make the picture about 1? less wide.
In 16:9 it almost is wide enough, but unfortunately it adds 1/2" black bars to
the top, bottom, and left.

[Gunnm]

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This has to do with the size and shape of the video. Often, people
will rip movies with the black bars on top and bottom (WHICH
SUCKS!) and gives us wide screen users a black box around the
movie. Crop the black bars from top and bottom, and your wide
screen movie will get bigger and fill up the screen. In VLC I use
the cropping video option, but I don't know how to do this in
MPlayer.