[OT] Xv + xine/mplayer: bad movie aspect ratio?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 18:15 +0000, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> 
> sorry for a somewhat off-topic question, but I think the most competent  
> people are listening here...

It may not be OT at all.

> I used and old XFree 86 on a Mac G4 "Silver" with self-compiled xine and  
> mplayer, both using the Xv output plugin, which worked perfectly. Now I  
> upgraded to Yellowdog Linux 4, coming with a Xorg X11 pre-release (rpm's  
> are named xorg-x11-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.9.ydl.1). Since then, both  
> mplayer and xine show a bad aspect ratio when using the Xv output plugin.  
> The size of the output window is correct (e.g.720x412, so there shouldn't  
> be mem overflows), but the movie looks much taller, and some part is  
> clipped.
> 
> Other plugins (like shm or opengl) show the right output aspect ratio. I  
> even tried to recompile xine, but the problem is still there.

Sounds like there's a problem with the XVideo support in the X server.
What driver are you using for what card?


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