More help please.

I added "aspect=16:9" to the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, instead of stretched to fill the whole screen, it shrinked to give me 4 borders. Is there any option to scale the video to fill the whole screen or having borders only at the top or bottom?

I think aspect ratio is NOT what I want. I think I want x-scale to scale the x dimension to fill the border on either sides of the screen. So what is the command line?

Edit: I think ace has the solution,
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For wide videos (i.e. 16:9):
"mplayer -vf crop=$((height*15/9)) video.avi"

For tall videos (i.e. 4:3):
"mplayer -vf crop=:$((width*9/15)) video.avi

You'll have to substitute the video dimensions in the appropriate places.
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can somebody translate that into a command line to use with the mplayer option?


TIA,



bun