[hardy] videos aren't playing with proper aspect ratio

[Michael R. Head]

Binary package hint: totem

After upgrading my G4-based Mac Mini from gutsy to hardy, I'm finding that videos are not showing up properly. Totem seems to think that the monitor (a 16:10 24" LCD, attached over a VGA cable, running at 1920x1200) is 4:3. When I play videos on it that, they are stretched horizontally, and cycling through the available aspect ratios (with the 'a' key) doesn't solve the problem (for 4:3 videos they start out appearing stretched out and only become more stretched out as totem tries other aspect ratios for the video). This leads me to believe that totem isn't figuring out the correct aspect ratio for the display.

I've tried with mplayer and VLC, and both seem to work (for example, 4:3 videos appear with proper-width side bars). Totem under gutsy worked fine, too. The same videos running on my Thinkpad T61p laptop with a 1920x1200 screen show up just right using totem-xine and totem-gstreamer.

I've tried both totem-xine and totem-gstreamer on the Mac Mini. Under totem-xine the problem is actually worse: 4:3 videos have no side bars, whereas with totem-gstreamer 4:3 videos have small (not large enough) sidebars.

This happens using Xv or straight Xv-less plain X11 output.

[Gergely Janossy (marcabru)]

I can confirm this bug.

Totem playing on lcd 1280x800 --> the video is srunk (too narrow)
Totem playing on crt 1024x768 --> the video is ok.

Mplayer, VLC ok on both monitor

This happens on the same machine, I only activated a different monitor.

machine: Acer Aspire 3610

[Gergely Janossy (marcabru)]

I should add, that the my previous comment refers to a machine with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900, with automatically configured X (no xorg.conf)

On my other machine (Clevo notebook with some Via UniChrome graphics card) I had to configure X manually with a previously written xorg.conf. On the manually configured X the videos play with correct aspect ratio.

So I think there is some parameter set by the x.org automatism. This parameter exclusively affects gstreamer and thus totem, but not mplayer and vlc.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

may someone experiencing the issue forward this upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.