Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Serge is offline Serge
2006-07-25 , 16:42
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#60
Originally Posted by Nickster
Regarding the bars, the problem is with videos which aren't precisely 4:3 or 15:9. If you're after generating a 320x240 or 400x240 video, then you're going to have to add bars or distort the picture. I prefer to add bars.
Well, you don't need to add bars, the player should respect aspect ratio. With -vo x11 the player tries to scale video twice (using hardware pixel doubling), if it still fits screen, pixel doubling is used. So it either displays unscaled video or doubled. 320x240 and 400x240 were just examples of video resolutions that are good for pixel doubling (and 352x288 is bad). And for 16:9 video, the best resolution would be 400x224.

Regarding framerate, I've found that the lag between sound and video is smaller when using 15fps rather than 25fps.
Maybe that's because of esd output module that is used by default. And with -ao gst some lag also exists, it should be compensated in some way later.

EDIT: Aha, just re-read this thread and discovered the "-vo sdl -ao sdl" option - the 25fps movie I generated is smooth and in synch now! Actually, even the full-sized movies are smoother too... will have to re-think this...
I also used -ao sdl first, but found some problems with it on a few video clips (it was quite buggy). So now -ao esd is used by default.

By the way, I enabled wiki at garage and added some information about current command line options usage:
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wik...l&id=54&type=g