Videos using xv are too wide

[Onur Küçük]

> My laptop's wide screen display has an aspect ratio of 1.6:1
> (1280/800).  When I play a video using xv output, the video window is
> too wide.  As an example, a video that should display at a 4:3 aspect
> ratio in fact plays at a 1.6:1 ratio.  This happens when mplayer uses
> xv, opengl, or opengl with multiple textures as the output method.
> However the video plays as expected with x11 output.  Do you think
> this is a driver issue or a mplayer issue?  

 MPlayer was setting the aspect ratio to 4/3 if monitorpixelaspect is
not set. It was fixed about 2 months ago in svn.

 You should try with -monitorpixelaspect 1 and see if the problem still
occures.

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