[MPlayer-users] Mencoder feature/bug ?

[Felix Buenemann]

On Wednesday, 7. November 2001 12:05, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
>
> Hi,
>
> > but... ;)
> > If i play my movie (7 years in tibet... still ;) with mplayer, it becomes
> > wide-screen. If i encode it with mencoder, it's encoded in a less wide
> > aspect ratio.
> > Now, while playing the DVD in mplayer, it tells me something about using
> > a pre-scaler (sorry, dont have output handy at the moment).
> >
> > Is this a bug due to lacking pre-scaler support in mencoder ?
> > or.. is this a feature, because the pre-scaler just makes the "narrow"
> > movie play as "wide" in mplayer ?
>
> mplayer scales image if aspect ratio info in header says it.
> byt avi files has no such header, so you should use the -aspect option.

hmm, but still we should have yuv scaler (without convert to rgb) to be able 
to rescale input to mencoder or for example downscale image for -vo xv.

Michael, can you do that?

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