[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Pan&Scan for Xvideo (again :)

[Felix Buenemann]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 10:57, Jesper Svennevid wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sven Goethel [mailto:sgoethel at jausoft.com]
> >
> > cool
> >
> > but ;-) i think the _real_ panscan interactive feature
> > would be to choose the scanning 4:3 region with the keyboard ...
> >
> > the vertical "crop" setup may be set on the commandline,
> > regarding the constant cinemascope type .. 16:9 ..
> >
> > then .. it would be funny to record the result,
> > or just the panscan interaction,
> > while "editing" the scan regions ;-)

> Recording shouldn't be impossible. Isn't this type of information
> stored inside DVDs aswell, to allow people watching the 4:3-
> version of a 2.35:1-movie to see the "real action"? In that case,
> it could perhaps be extracted and re-used on the encoded movie
> aswell. In any case, adding some kind of recording sounds actually
> useful (perhaps by using some kind of 'trackmark'-hotkey, so not
> every motion you do while "editing" the movie gets into the
> history.

Well this is totally impractical with a recording tool like mencoder, this is 
in scope for a video editing app, where you can seek back, reset the panning 
etc.  Maybe time fo MDub ;-)
-- 
Best Regards,
        Atmos
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