I'm running mplayer using vo=x11, on the XOrg X Server using the Vesa driver. When I uncomment "monitoraspect=16:9" in /etc/mplayer.conf (or specify it on the commandline), it makes no change to the aspect display of my movies (all movies still displayed as if monitor is 4:3). Here's my emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bzlib cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cdrom clamav codecs crypt cups curl dnd dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif faac faad fam ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb freetype ftp gd gdbm geoip gif glut gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 image imlib imlib2 joystick jpeg kerberos libcaca libg++ libgd libwww lirc lm_sensors lufsusermount lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska md5sum mikmod mime mmap mmx mng monkey motif mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 mplayer mysql mythtv ncurses net network nls nocd oav offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdf pdflib perl physfs pic pie png psyco pthreads python quicktime radeon readline rtc samba sdl shared sharedmem slang sndfile sockets speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga t1lib tcpd theora tiff timidity transcode truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 video_cards_radeon wmf x86 xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xpm xrandr xv xvid yv12 zlib"
Does it work with other video out drivers? X11 is non accelerated and supports software scaling (usually if your card supports it) through zoom and -fs, but that's about it. Aspect Ratio changes? As said.. see if the other video drivers work.
ooo, I forgot I filed this bug. :) Yeah, once I was able to start using xv or opengl vo again, then the aspect mode correction worked properly. I was stuck using regular x11 output drivers because there was issues with the TV out on my card (radeon) that left me using the VESA Xorg driver instead of the ATI or FGLRX ones. That's been since sorted out (I bought myself a nice HDTV signal transcoder). :) In any case though, as a user I'd assume that software scaling would also do the scaling required for aspect ratio correction operations. I'd say we either need an upstream feature request to support this, or some documentation in Gentoo just noting this behavior ("NOTE! You cannot do aspect ratio operations without xv / opengl / other vo accelerated drivers!").
Alright, closing this then. Also, the aspect ratio thingy is explained in the docs (expecially the pre6 docs :P).
