diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index d2dde641e8..e357a13be8 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -2505,6 +2505,13 @@ Set the aspect ratio of your monitor or TV screen.
 .PD 1
 .
 .TP
+.B \-monitorpixelaspect <ratio> (also see \-aspect)
+Set the aspect of a single pixel of your monitor or TV screen (default: disabled).
+Overrides the \-monitoraspect setting.
+A value of 0 disables, a value of 1 means square pixels
+(correct for (almost?) all LCDs).
+.
+.TP
 .B \-nodouble
 Disables double buffering, mostly for debugging purposes.
 Double buffering fixes flicker by storing two frames in memory, and
diff --git a/cfg-mplayer.h b/cfg-mplayer.h
index c5a103684b..f908e1e93b 100644
--- a/cfg-mplayer.h
+++ b/cfg-mplayer.h
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ extern int nortc;
 
 /* from libvo/aspect.c */
 extern float monitor_aspect;
+extern float monitor_pixel_aspect;
 
 extern int sws_flags;
 extern int readPPOpt(void *conf, char *arg);
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ m_option_t mplayer_opts[]={
 	{"geometry", &vo_geometry, CONF_TYPE_STRING, 0, 0, 0, NULL},
 	// set aspect ratio of monitor - useful for 16:9 TVout
 	{"monitoraspect", &monitor_aspect, CONF_TYPE_FLOAT, CONF_RANGE, 0.2, 9.0, NULL},
+	{"monitorpixelaspect", &monitor_pixel_aspect, CONF_TYPE_FLOAT, CONF_RANGE, 0.0, 9.0, NULL},
 	// video mode switching: (x11,xv,dga)
         {"vm", &vidmode, CONF_TYPE_FLAG, 0, 0, 1, NULL},
         {"novm", &vidmode, CONF_TYPE_FLAG, 0, 1, 0, NULL},
diff --git a/libvo/aspect.c b/libvo/aspect.c
index 05c729baf3..0ecf02e858 100644
--- a/libvo/aspect.c
+++ b/libvo/aspect.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ float vo_panscanrange = 1.0;
 #include "video_out.h"
 
 float monitor_aspect=4.0/3.0;
+float monitor_pixel_aspect=0;
 extern float movie_aspect;
 
 static struct {
@@ -53,6 +54,8 @@ void aspect_save_screenres(int scrw, int scrh){
 #endif
   aspdat.scrw = scrw;
   aspdat.scrh = scrh;
+  if (monitor_pixel_aspect)
+    monitor_aspect = monitor_pixel_aspect * scrw / scrh;
 }
 
 /* aspect is called with the source resolution and the