Odd, I just created an xvid file to 720x352. When I play it on mplayer it doesn't honor the correct aspect ratio whereas other players do (I plays back "squished."). Is there a switch I need to enable? Haven't seen a problem like this on mplayer before.

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If you have a 16:9 TV, go into setup and mplayer line to:

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It's on a standard 4:3 and I tried showing it that ratio. It's only happening with one video I made from DVD by cropping the blackbars without resizing. Source was 720x480 and new size is 720x352. This is correct for the movie since it's aspect ratio is 2.04:1.00.

If I play the file on mplayerc for win32, it is correct. If I play the file using mplayer under win32 or Debian, the aspect ratio is incorrect. I measured the resulting video box to be 720x510!

What am I doing wrong? Here is the output from gspot:

CONT_AUDIO_STREAM_COUNT 1
CONT_BASETYPE AVI(.AVI)
CONT_BYTES_MISSING 0
CONT_INTERLEAVE_ALIGN Split
CONT_INTERLEAVE_PRELOAD 512
CONT_INTERLEAVE_TIME 42
CONT_SUBTYPE OpenDML (AVI v2.0),
CONT_TOTAL_BITRATE 0
VIDEO_BITRATE 1498
VIDEO_CODEC_NAME XviD 1.1.2 Final
VIDEO_CODEC_STATUS Codec(s) are Installed
VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE xvid
VIDEO_DAR 2.045
VIDEO_FRAMES_PER_SEC 23.976
VIDEO_MPEG4 MPEG-4
VIDEO_MPEG4_BVOP B-VOP
VIDEO_PAR 1.000
VIDEO_PICS_PER_SEC 23.976
VIDEO_QF 0.247
VIDEO_SAR 2.045
VIDEO_SIZE_X 720
VIDEO_SIZE_Y 352
AUDIO_BITRATE 448
AUDIO_BITRATE_TYPE CBR
AUDIO_CHANNEL_COUNT 6
AUDIO_CODEC 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
AUDIO_CODEC_STATUS Codec(s) are Installed
AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE 48000

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