[solved] mplayer suddenly scaling my widescreen videos?!

I just did an upgrade, I tried mplayer with a bunch of video files and it keeps rescaling them, getting rid of the black bars on top and bottom, kind of "upscaling" which I don't want. I can't figure out how to stop it from doing this:
┌─[ 23:13 ][ /media/stuff/tv/HD/Heroes/S01 ]
└─> mplayer -ao alsa:device=plug=dmix6 -channels 6 -delay -0.1 -fs Heroes.2006.S01E15.720p.HDDVD.x264-ESiR.mkv
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
137 audio & 296 video codecs
Playing Heroes.2006.S01E15.720p.HDDVD.x264-ESiR.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3), -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x720 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 640.0 kbit/13.89% (ratio: 80000->576000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12 [fs]
xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0
A: 399.4 V: 399.4 A-V: 0.005 ct: 0.090 0/ 0 43% 1% 0.8% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
┌─[ 23:13 ][ /media/stuff/tv/HD/Heroes/S01 ]
└─>
And I don't have anything in my ~/.mplayer/config that relates to this, only a default alsa output setting.
TIA for any help
Last edited by colbert (2009-05-28 00:21:22)

I have the same problem. Don't know if it happened after the upgrade or not.
I also noticed that this has something to do with Twinview/Xinerama. When the second monitor was disabled (in xorg.conf), full screen in mplayer worked as expected.
Glad to see someone with the same problem, I was just about to create a thread asking for help. -zoom, -vo xv and -xineramascreen 1 didn't help.
EDIT: By the way. I don't know if it's related, but now the mplayer window appear centered on the both monitors. Before it always appeared centered on the secondary screen (left).
Last edited by Mogger (2009-05-22 18:45:17)

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Widescreen video capture and widescreen playback

Is there a way to capture widescreen video from Canopus ADVC 100 and have it playback widescreen as opposed to letterboxed. When I load it into a video iPod, the 4:3 aspect of the display makes the video even smaller.

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[SOLVED] mplayer & mkv (ffmpeh h.264) choppy

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because is not enough just to pass -vo vdpau. you need to pass -vc too
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A: 7.8 V: 0.9 A-V: 6.900 ct: 0.092 0/ 0 23% 8% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 7.9 V: 1.0 A-V: 6.900 ct: 0.096 0/ 0 22% 8% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 7.9 V: 1.0 A-V: 6.894 ct: 0.100 0/ 0 21% 8% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 7.9 V: 1.0 A-V: 6.890 ct: 0.104 0/ 0 20% 7% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.0 V: 1.1 A-V: 6.885 ct: 0.108 0/ 0 20% 7% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.0 V: 1.1 A-V: 6.881 ct: 0.113 0/ 0 19% 7% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.0 V: 1.2 A-V: 6.876 ct: 0.117 0/ 0 18% 7% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.1 V: 1.2 A-V: 6.871 ct: 0.121 0/ 0 18% 6% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.1 V: 1.3 A-V: 6.866 ct: 0.125 0/ 0 17% 6% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.2 V: 1.3 A-V: 6.867 ct: 0.129 0/ 0 17% 6% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.2 V: 1.3 A-V: 6.862 ct: 0.133 0/ 0 16% 6% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.2 V: 1.4 A-V: 6.858 ct: 0.138 0/ 0 16% 6% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.3 V: 1.4 A-V: 6.854 ct: 0.142 0/ 0 15% 5% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.3 V: 1.5 A-V: 6.850 ct: 0.146 0/ 0 15% 5% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.3 V: 1.5 A-V: 6.845 ct: 0.150 0/ 0 15% 5% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.4 V: 1.5 A-V: 6.840 ct: 0.154 0/ 0 14% 5% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.4 V: 1.6 A-V: 6.835 ct: 0.158 0/ 0 14% 5% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.5 V: 1.6 A-V: 6.830 ct: 0.163 0/ 0 13% 5% 0.7% 3 0 [J
A: 8.5 V: 1.7 A-V: 6.826 ct: 0.167 0/ 0 13% 5% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.5 V: 1.7 A-V: 6.821 ct: 0.171 0/ 0 13% 5% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.6 V: 1.8 A-V: 6.816 ct: 0.175 0/ 0 12% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.6 V: 1.8 A-V: 6.816 ct: 0.179 0/ 0 12% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.6 V: 1.8 A-V: 6.812 ct: 0.184 0/ 0 12% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.7 V: 1.9 A-V: 6.807 ct: 0.188 0/ 0 12% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.7 V: 1.9 A-V: 6.803 ct: 0.192 0/ 0 11% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.8 V: 2.0 A-V: 6.798 ct: 0.196 0/ 0 11% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.8 V: 2.0 A-V: 6.793 ct: 0.200 0/ 0 11% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.8 V: 2.0 A-V: 6.788 ct: 0.204 0/ 0 11% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.9 V: 2.1 A-V: 6.783 ct: 0.209 0/ 0 10% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.9 V: 2.1 A-V: 6.778 ct: 0.213 0/ 0 10% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 8.9 V: 2.2 A-V: 6.780 ct: 0.217 0/ 0 10% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.0 V: 2.2 A-V: 6.775 ct: 0.221 0/ 0 10% 4% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.0 V: 2.3 A-V: 6.770 ct: 0.225 0/ 0 10% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.1 V: 2.3 A-V: 6.766 ct: 0.229 0/ 0 10% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.1 V: 2.3 A-V: 6.761 ct: 0.234 0/ 0 9% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.1 V: 2.4 A-V: 6.756 ct: 0.238 0/ 0 9% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.2 V: 2.4 A-V: 6.751 ct: 0.242 0/ 0 9% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.2 V: 2.5 A-V: 6.746 ct: 0.246 0/ 0 9% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.2 V: 2.5 A-V: 6.741 ct: 0.250 0/ 0 9% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.3 V: 2.5 A-V: 6.742 ct: 0.254 0/ 0 9% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.3 V: 2.6 A-V: 6.737 ct: 0.259 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.4 V: 2.6 A-V: 6.733 ct: 0.263 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.4 V: 2.7 A-V: 6.728 ct: 0.267 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.4 V: 2.7 A-V: 6.723 ct: 0.271 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.5 V: 2.8 A-V: 6.718 ct: 0.275 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.5 V: 2.8 A-V: 6.713 ct: 0.279 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.5 V: 2.8 A-V: 6.708 ct: 0.284 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.6 V: 2.9 A-V: 6.704 ct: 0.288 0/ 0 8% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
A: 9.6 V: 2.9 A-V: 6.699 ct: 0.292 0/ 0 7% 3% 0.6% 3 0 [J
Exiting... (Quit)
Here's my ~/.mplayer/config file..
# Write your default config options here!
vo=vdpau
vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau
nolirc=yes
ao=alsa
i'm running standalone openbox..
thanks in advance..
Edit:
I'm getting this only when i open a video using qtfm's custom action..
The post below fixed the problem..
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 89#p914489
Last edited by dipesh.nomad (2011-07-29 05:46:27)

Hi harish.venkat,
welcome to the forums. Did you notice this thread is rather old? You should not necro-post, see our forum etiquette about this.
Please create a new thread of your own. You may link back to this one if necessary.
Closing.

1440x1080 scaling down - widescreen?

Premiere Pro cs4,
Hi....working with some video I got. The size is 1440x1080.
I need to scale down for standard definition. So, when I create my premiere project, do I create a
DV-NTSC Widescreen 48kHz sequence? I tried that and when I scale down the video 46%, it seems to fit.
When I create a DV-NTSC Standard 48kHz sequence, and scale down, black bars show up on the top
and bottom, obviously b/c of the size.
My question is, if I make it the DV-NTSC Widescreen 48kHz sequence so no video gets cut off,
what will the end user see on a standard definition tv? will they see black bars at the top and bottom?
Is that acceptable or normal?

Once in Encore, you can mix 4:3 and 16:9, but in your case you don't need to: your movies will be 16:9 and your menus should match. But this is not a project setting, since the DVD specs and Encore allow you to mix them.
It will also help you to read some more about this. These answers may leave you with some misconceptions because you are asking fairly specific questions and are missing some of the background. Here for Encore (found CS5 first): http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSE5BEA26E-E238-44b1-8196-7FD4EC8DD3F1a.html Here re pixel sizes and PAR (found CS4 first): http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS03BF7479-8C7B-4522-8C75-210AD102524Ea.html#W S082E922A-A5D7-4de1-9A0E-1EFC401EA6D1
For example, you were told that it is widescreen because it has nonsquare pixels. That is true, but the "regular" shape (4:3) also has nonsquare pixels - they are just different rectangular proportions. Some of the HD formats use square pixels. The main point: there is no simple rule of thumb: know the options and be sure you know what you have and what your final delivery is to be.
I agree with the answer you have been given about whether you can make widescreen (16:9) video into 4:3. (You can, but you have to crop it or letterbox it.) And then all your widescreen capable viewers will miss the original content.
So many people now have widescreen, that I see no reason to lock your DVD into a 4:3 shape, so yes, stay with the wide screen.
When I provide wide screen DVDs to a customer, I provide a label that says "widescreen," and a link to my website (http://www.videoandcomputer.com/faq.htm) that has an explanation for how to set up your DVD player.
The problem Rod describes (his DVD player 4:3 TV combination won't play a widescreen correctly) is less and less common. It does not matter thatit is an analogue or older TV. The setup is in the DVD player. And you've really got to have an old DVD player for it not to have a setup that tells it what kind of TV it is hooked to. That is a manual setting. If you set the DVD player to "4:3 TV" the DVD player will know to letterbox when it sends out a widescreen video to the TV.

IDVD 4 and Widescreen video

Sometimes things turn out better than you expect. I had widescreen video that I made into movies (iMovie 4) and then burned to DVD. I expected to have the black bands on my widescreen TV, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that my movies filled the whole screen! (My DVD player is an older Sony home theater system.) I have ordered iLife 5 and my question is do I need to delete iLife 4 before I install it? Will iMovie 5 play the movies I made in iMovie 4?
Virginia
1 GHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Memory: 768 MB DDR SDRAM

Thanks for the positive feedback! Pleasant change.
Read Dan Slagle's site for answers to your questions:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/
You can keep iLife 4 on your Mac and still install iLife 5. I like iLife 4 for converting analog to digital ( iMovie 5 and 6 has a bug that prevents some cameras from converting like they do with iMovie 4)
You can open iLife 4 projects with iLife 5, ,but I suggest making certain that the project is complete prior to opening in the newer version.
Sue

12/13/2014 I suddenly no longer stream videos because of a blocked plug in on my Mac Safari 5.1.10 MacOSX 10.6.8 updated to snow leopard&mountain lion I use adobe flash

12/13/2014 I suddenly no longer stream videos because of a blocked plug in on my Mac Safari 5.1.10 MacOSX 10.6.8
updated to snow leopard& mountain lion I use adobe flash. My preferences allow all plug ins.

If my experience with a similarly aged computer is any indicator, you'll notice an immediately speed hit once you've upgraded to Mavericks. Each OS X update tends to be more memory hungry than the previous and my 2007 iMac wasn't happy with Lion until I upgraded the RAM and at that point Lion performance roughly matched Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion and then Mavericks shaved some speed off again. Mavericks on the 2007 iMac was okay for the most part but switching between applications was slow as was the fileselector.
My 2009 MBP saw similar slowdowns with Lion but I was above to upgrade it to 8GB which made a big difference. (My iMac was limited to 6GB) but I still saw a significant speed hit with Mt Lion when I tried to run multiple memory intensive applications. Seeing how my wife's MacBook Air dealt with Mt Lion with only 4GB I decided to install an SSD in the MBP and wow what a difference. Tried it with the iMac using a FireWire800 enclosure and saw similar improvement.
So to boil it down to one sentence, you are going to see a significant speed hit with only 4GB but if you can afford to upgrade your drive to an SSD you'll be amazed at how well that computer can run.

HT203200 How can i solve the -50 error when downloading video from itunes??

How can I solve the -50 error when downloading video from itunes. The apple support people cannot even figure it out!??

The 2330 error often means some sort of damage to the filing system as might happen if the battery fell out while the disk was in use.
Try running a disk check to see if it finds and fixes any errors.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265

[SOLVED]Mplayer/Mencoder with mp3lame support

I'm searchig to encode my .avi file to use it with my Zen.
I want to use mencoder to make this and not ffmpeg because there is a useful script based on mencoder.
But mplayer in arch linux repository has not mp3lame support enabled.
I don't know how to build it with this stuff, all my trials to make the PKGBUILD works are failed.
Have someone an idea of how to modify the configure option in mplayer's PKGBUILD to enable mp3lame.
Last edited by algol.tr (2009-05-29 13:20:55)

if the only options available with ./configure --help are --disable-{mp3lame,mp3lame-lavc} then doesn't that mean they are enabled by default? in that case why is he getting the error at the start of this post?
mine seems to have it, though i don't have a file to test right now:
> mencoder -oac help
MEncoder UNKNOWN-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
137 audio & 296 video codecs
Available codecs:
copy - frame copy, without re-encoding (useful for AC3)
pcm - uncompressed PCM audio
mp3lame - cbr/abr/vbr MP3 using libmp3lame
lavc - FFmpeg audio encoder (MP2, AC3, ...)
faac - FAAC AAC audio encoder

[SOLVED] mplayer not keeping mkv aspect ratios

When playing MKVs which have Display Width/Height defined, it appears the Movie-Aspect is never being set. Here's sample console output:
mplayer movie.mkv
-snip-
[mkv] |+ segment information...
[mkv] | + timecode scale: 1000000
[mkv] | + duration: 6894.848s
[mkv] |+ segment tracks...
[mkv] | + a track...
[mkv] | + Track number: 1
[mkv] | + Track type: Video
[mkv] | + Default flag: 1
[mkv] | + Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
[mkv] | + CodecPrivate, length 40
[mkv] | + Default duration: 41.708ms ( = 23.976 fps)
[mkv] | + Language: und
[mkv] | + Name: -snip-
[mkv] | + Video track
[mkv] | + Pixel width: 704
[mkv] | + Pixel height: 480
[mkv] | + Display width: 852
[mkv] | + Display height: 480
-snip-
Starting playback...
Increasing filtered audio buffer size from 0 to 34816
[h264 @ 0xe26f60]no picture
[h264 @ 0xe26f60]no picture
[ffmpeg] aspect_ratio: 0.000000
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Trying filter chain: ass vo
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO Config (704x480->704x480,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
REQ: flags=0x437 req=0x0
VO: [xv] 704x480 => 704x480 Planar YV12
VO: Description: X11/Xv
VO: Author: Gerd Knorr <[email protected]> and others
Xvideo image format: 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed
Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar
Xvideo image format: 0x59565955 (UYVY) packed
Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar
using Xvideo port 310 for hw scaling
*** [ass] Exporting mp_image_t, 704x480x12bpp YUV planar, 506880 bytes
*** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 704x480x12bpp YUV planar, 506880 bytes
-snip-
Any ideas as to what is happening? My ~/.mplayer/config contains the following:
# Write your default config options here!
[extension.mkv]
demuxer=mkv
sid=0
ass=yes
embeddedfonts=yes
fontconfig=yes
What gets me is that the Display Height and Display Width are clearly being detected by the demuxer--but it's as if that information isn't making it all the way down to when it starts playing. Thoughts?
EDIT: I should also mention that without the demuxer being set to mkv, I still don't get the AR preserved.
Last edited by skystrife (2010-11-08 23:45:20)

There was a bug in mplayer for a short time. It's possible the current mplayer in Arch is exactly that buggy version. Try mplayer-svn from AUR.

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