How to mplayer video fullscreen and keep original video resolution?

[leandro]

Hey everyone!


How do I play a video in full screen and keep the original resolution without stretching it? I mean, to fill black in the background.


mplayer -fs video.avi (will stretch the video)
I tried panscan and zoom but didn't work.


VLC also will do.



Could not find anything here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#VIDEO%20FILTERS


Thanks!

[jagabo]

VLC:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/350495-Hauppauge-HD-PVR-SD-Cropping-Info?p=2197438&...=1#post2197438

Pretty much every player can zoom. In MPCHC select Video Frame -> Touch Window From Inside. In SMPlayer you can zoom with the E key. PotPlayer uses 9 on the keypad.

[El Heggunte]

How do I play a video in full screen and keep the original resolution without stretching it? I mean, to fill black in the background.

By means of trial and error, I've found the following command-lines work without glitches for me:

mplayer -vo gl -fs -vf expand=width:height "video.mp4"

mplayer -vo gl2 -fs -vf expand=width:height "video.mp4"

so if your monitor's resolution is, let's say, 1280x800, then width=1280 and height=800

HTH

[leandro]

still doesn't work. it plays the movie in full screen but stretches it.

[leandro]

with this, it plays in 3x4, but still not the original resolution:

mplayer -vf expand=:::::1 "video.mp4"

[Hoser Rob]

I don't quite get it here ... is this a learning exercise?

There are very good mplayer front ends out there. Smplayer for windows and linux, which is what I use. Umplayer for windows, linux and mac. Never tried that one. Smplayer is my default. And it has no problems whatsoever with aspect ratios.

[jagabo]

I don't know what you mean by "keep original video resolution". For example, do you want a 640x480 video to play at 640x480 in the middle of a 1920x1080 screen with black borders all around it?

[leandro]

I do use smplayer too.
There are these videos in low resolution when played in full screen (1920x1080) will stretch too much.
i just want to play them in the original resolution with a black screen in the background.

[jagabo]

So you want your video to play like this when full screen?

[El Heggunte]

Looks like Mplayer (or the build you're using, at least) has problems with certain drivers or video cards.

[leandro]

So you want your video to play like this when full screen?


[Attachment 14566 - Click to enlarge]

exactly! that's what i'm trying to get.
How did you do it?

[jagabo]

I used MPCHC. VLC can do that too, turn off the Always Fit Window option. I don't know about mplayer. But in smplayer you can hit w multiple times to reduce the picture size.

[sanlyn]

The newest versions of Win Media Player have no respect for aspect ratios. Add inferior playback to begin with, and the suggestion to use something better seems more than reasonable.

[jagabo]

The OP isn't using Windows Media Player. He's using mplayer, a linux command line player. Though it's not clear if he's running Linux or Windows.

[sanlyn]

In case the O.P. considers WMP. . . .Most linux users I know are running linux and Windows both. But the O.P. didn't say which...

[leandro]

using windows 7 x64

not using wmp

[sanlyn]

using windows 7 x64

not using wmp

Good decision.

[movmasty]

I used MPCHC. VLC can do that too, turn off the Always Fit Window option. I don't know about mplayer. But in smplayer you can hit w multiple times to reduce the picture size.

But in this way you never know if the video is exacly at 100 or 150/200%

In MPCHC you can easily do, but in smplayer window and video size are not separated

[jagabo]

in smplayer you can hit w multiple times to reduce the picture size.

But in this way you never know if the video is exacly at 100 or 150/200%

It tells you the size in the status bar at the bottom.

in smplayer window and video size are not separated

Then what's this?



It works in full screen too:



Notice the "zoom 0.5" in both images.