Re: gnome-mplayer does not play videos in the correct aspect ratio

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

El 2011-07-10 a las 09:13 -0400, Eden escribió:

(resending to the list)

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:32:09 -0400, Eden wrote:
> >
> > > When I try to watch a video it does not cover the entire screen.
> > > Sometimes it is a small box playing in the center when it is full screen
> > > other times there are large chunks of black space on both sides of the
> > > monitor. When I try to watch a video it does not cover the entire
> > > screen. Sometimes it is a small box playing in the center when it is
> > > full screen other times there are large chunks of black space on both
> > > sides of the monitor.
> >
> > Yes, as others already told you, try with mplayer and if still having
> > problems with aspect ratio, try to use the associated parameter "mplayer -
> > aspect [value]".

> I have tried it in the terminal as you can see from my terminal output:
> eltume@G41M-ES2l:~$ mplayer -vo gl /home/eltume/Videos/Super (2010).avi
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('. 

I'm afraid you need to enclose the file in quotes:

mplayer -vo gl "/home/eltume/Videos/Super (2010).avi"

> I've tried chaning the aspect ratio. I will try using mplayer and not 
> gnome-mplayer to play the video.

Yep, in the end it's mplayer that makes all the hard job :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón