Hi,

I'm trying to playback a widescreen avi file on my mythtv box, which is connected via DVI to my widescreen tv.

When I play the file, the width is scaled as it is supposed to, but the height is not - so everyone has extremely short legs and fat heads

Is that a known problem?

thanks

I had the same issue, I think the problem is that mplayer thinks it's outputting to a 4:3 TV, so it adds black bars to the top and bottom, squishing 16:9 content. If you add "-aspect 4:3" to the player command (I believe it's in Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings) you can trick mplayer into thinking the content is 4:3 so it will display it full screen.

This presents another problem though: any content that is wider than widescreen will be stretched vertically. For these I add "-aspect 16:9" to the player command for individual videos so it again adds the bars and there's no stretching. It's a pain to change the player command for a bunch of individual videos, but it's the only solution I've found so far. I still have not figured out how to get mplayer to display 4:3 content correctly on my widescreen TV, i.e. with bars on the sides. MythTV plays 4:3 content just fine, but not mplayer.

nice - works - thanks!

I fiddled around with the parameters and now I'm using -monitoraspect 16:9 - and it seems to be working with both 4:3 and 16:9. Haven't tried anything wider than 16:9 yet.