Getting Mplayer to Scale to True Full Screen?

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Hi,

I have a 1600x1200 screen, and would ideally like to be able to watch movies with the image scaled up to fill the entire screen (currently it's a widescreen band in the center). Is this possible?

I've been looking around, and reading the man page but can't find anything of understandable use....

thx!

gotaserena · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

try mplayer -vo x11 -vf scale=1600:1200,dsize input_file.mp4

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Thanks,

That actually gave me exactly the same size, so i tried 2000:1600 and that seemed to fill the screen, though i think it overflowed a bit. It was choppy as hell though, not very watchable...

gotaserena · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject:

I guess I understand you now. Your movie has black bands above and below the picture? (you can easily check this by playing it with mplayer withou any additional parameters.) If yes, then you need to crop that out before scaling up.

The command would be something like
mplayer -fs -vf crop=640:204,scale=640:480,dsize input_file.avi
But do try fiddling with the values, especially the height of the cropped frame (204 in the above example) to crop the black bands exactly.

jamesdick628 · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

Also, pressing the keys 'e' and 'w' while the movie is playing change how much of the black band is shown (and thus cuts off the sides as if it weren't widescreen). This is what I usually do.