Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/30/2011 02:04 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:12:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 04/30/2011 11:07 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote:
> > > Hello Everybody,
> > >
> > > Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen
> > > video without getting stretched,using mencoder ?
> >
> > I don't think that mencoder is the right tool for that task.  "Let
> > the player handle full screen" is what I say.
> >
> > Anyway, 16:9 video will never "neatly" fill a 4:3 monitor (and same
> > for 4:3 video w/ a 16:9 monitor.  You must live with the black bars.
> I think he wants the black bars.  What he doesn't want is for the video
> to get stretched to fill the screen, wrecking the aspect ratio in the
> process.

Neither mplayer nor vlc distort the AR when running in full screen mode. 
 Any player that does distort the AR is worthless.

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