mplayer aspect ratio problems

scottf · n00b Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 6

I am having a problem controlling the aspect ratio that mplayer uses to display streams. Regardless of the command line or mplayer.conf settings, it always displays the stream in my monitor's perspective, unless I use "-vo x11". I am using the nvidia twinview option with 2 monitors at 1024x768, which makes it look like one monitor at 2048x768. Effectively my monitor ratio is 8x3 and that is always the window ratio mplayer uses, except in the x11 case. If I disable twinview and only boot with one screen, it plays as expected. If I use gmplayer, it uses the correct perspective. I've tried DVD and ivtv sources all with the same improper ratio. I have been using this setup for years, and mplayer was happy until a few days ago. I had some drive damage (repaired), upgraded some packages and can't get this fixed. I've re-emerged xfree, mplayer (.9 & 1.0pre4) with no luck. The following is my mplayer output.

$ mplayer dvd://
MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 1005 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/scott/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/scott/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/scott/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/scott/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Device or resource busy (/dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/scott/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds

Playing dvd://.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 35 titles on this DVD.
There are 38 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 7500.0 kbps (937.5 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 48000->192000 (384.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 2048x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed

Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
A: 0.5 V: 0.5 A-V: 0.016 ct: 0.023 15/ 12 0% 0% 0.0% 0 0 98%
demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
A: 3.3 V: 3.3 A-V: 0.012 ct: 0.058 83/ 80 15% 10% 2.2% 0 0 78%
Exiting... (Quit)

I would really appreciate some advice.

Thanks,

Scott

SZwarts · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 4:54 am Post subject:

I have some options you can try, but I'm not in the position to try so I don't know if any of them will work... I just give them and good luck

scottf · n00b Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 6

timmfin · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem. I also use twin view and cannot set the correct aspect ratio when using mplayer, but it does work with gmplayer.

aplesch · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 70

Here the same exact setup and problem. I seem to remember that before my latest emerge mplayer it used to work, no ?
Did not try unstable.
I player with the -v option to find any difference between mplayer and gmplayer but there is nothing obviously helpful.

I also would like to have fullscreen in correct aspect ratio and this also used to worked AFAIK. Now fs stretches across the whole screen and distorts.
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aplesch · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 70

I found now that the command line option

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Psych0 · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 1:31 am Post subject:

Yay! Thanks for figuring it out. It stumped me

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timmfin · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

Cool, putting

BlackEdder · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 10:53 am Post subject:

I had the same problem with xine, gimp and mplayer. Apparently they check your size setting in XF86Config to figure out what width to their window.
I put DisplaySize 590 230 for both my monitors and then it worked

Sabbie · n00b Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Netherlands

Yay!! I've been searching for this for a while now.. xinemara use flag does the trick indeed!

scottf · n00b Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 6

Sorry for the delay in replying. monitoraspect=8:3 fixed my situation too. Thanks.