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mplayer package

[feisty] mplayer does not detect aspect ratio on widescreen displays

Bug #114405 reported by Bartek
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mplayer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Reproducible: every time
Steps: on a widescreen display, open a video in mplayer and note that it is displayed using the wrong aspect ratio (vertically squished)
Fix: set correct "monitoraspect" in mplayer.conf or ~/mplayer/config

The problem is that mplayer seems to be unable to detect the monitor aspect ratio automatically. On my intel i915 with a 1280x800 (ratio 1.6) screen videos seem squished in the vertical direction. This can be fixed by setting "monitoraspect" to 1.6 in either /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf or ~/mplayer/config

A very annoying, but easily fixed, bug given that mplayer is the only player capable of playing HD videos on this hardware.

Distro: Ubuntu 7.04 feisty
Uname: Linux ikarus 2.6.20-15-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 15 07:39:03 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9

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Pascal Schwarz (iso-thinktux) wrote :

just wanted to confirm this bug

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Vaida Bogdan (vaidab) wrote :

Confirmed on 7.04 using the LG L194WT-SF wide screen monitor.

Bartek (tschew)
Changed in mplayer:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Xvani (fredrile+launchpad) wrote :

This has been fixed in mplayers SVN version.

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

I confirm this in Gutsy too

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patrick_g (patrick-guignot) wrote :

I can confirm this bug in Gutsy (with a 1440x900 LCD screen).

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Brinley Ang (brinley) wrote :

Hi, I would like to confirm that I had this problem on Gutsy before but a recent update has fixed it.

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Ric Flomag (ricflomag) wrote :

Marking as fixed released. Reopen it if i'm wrong.

Changed in mplayer:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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