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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> On Wed, 25 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:
...
> What would I want to do at the same time as playing a DVD?  
> Anything I did even in the background would just slow down the DVD 
> playback. And I could not find any way to make the movie-image 
> larger or smaller, just move it around.

"-fs -zoom" should play it (slowly) full-screen in X. Drop -fs, and
you should be able to resize the window to change the size.

> Me neither.  When we first started to watch library videotapes, we 
> hooked up a green TTL monitor to the VCR and watched in black and 
> green.  Since then we have collected RGB (old Commodore) monitors 
> that we can plug into the VCR instead.  We watched the olympics 
> once using the VCR tuner.

These monitors had an RCA input? Last I checked, VCRs don't give
VGA output. :|

> What I was trying to say is that maybe the movie was actually 
> filmed in the 1:33:1 ratio and -noaspect changes that to something 
> that fills the monitor screen better.

I believe that MPlayer thinks that it looks better without -noaspect.
I disagree with it.

> >> Vesa fills the entire width of the screen, x11 leaves about 1/2" at
> >> each side of our 17" monitor in 800x600 Xvesa mode, so I prefer it.
> >
> > These are default sizes.
> 
> Don't other sizes use more cpu?  I can also adjust the monitor directly.

-noaspect is faster. Other than that, nonstandard sizes are slower.

David

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