Disable automatic window resize?

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Sorry, but i didn't find any info on this anywhere.

Is there a way to disable the automatic window resizing completly?
I tried to play with the options "Remember window location and size" and 
"Resize window when new video is loaded" but couldn't make out any change in 
behaviour.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start gnome-mplayer
2. Open video-, audio-file or playlist

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the window to keep it's size. Instead it shrinks (slowly animated, 
duration ~0.5 seconds) when playing audio-files or resizes to fit the 
video-resolution.
I'd like the player-window to always keep the size unless i manually resize it. 
Videos should be proportionally scaled to fit into the window. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
gnome-mplayer 1.0.4
Ubuntu 11.10

Please provide any additional information below.

I'm really grateful for the effort you put into this. I hope i don't sound like 
a douche. I'm a german native, so my english might not express my utter respect 
for you and your work adequately!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by matthias...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 1:36

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I don't know if this really is a defect; also the priority could be lower than 
medium, but i had no way to choose this when reporting this issue. :/

Original comment by matthias...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 1:39

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The resizing between audio and video files is by design. It is to keep from 
having a large blank area in the window. If this really concerns you, opening 
the playlist will keep the window from resizing when switching between audio 
and video files.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 2:10

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To add my comments...
I've been using g-mplayer for quite a while and I find it excellent for 
playback of my raw MTS files and at capturing good Q screenshots, which I 
convert to JPEG.
However, if I don't check Playlist under View, surely enough, with every new 
play, the player resizes to show the file at 100% -which makes much of the 
picture go off screen.  Selecting half-size is extra work especially when going 
through 100's of clips. With Playlist on then there's no resizing to full size. 
 I'm with debian.  

Funny enough when I had Xubuntu, the problem was different, being that with 
every play of a file the player shrunk a little.  So after 20 files the player 
would be very small! I would need to resize the player by dragging with ALT-F8.

I've been stuck for quite a while with this but I just tried this in "extra 
options to mplayer" in Preferences > Mplayer
-xy 1:2 
and it works a treat.

Original comment by dpquin...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2012 at 1:35