[MPlayer-users] Panscan.

[Felix Buenemann]

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 23:49, Jakub Turski wrote:
> I was wondering, if we could achieve panscan feature with current mplay­
> er (and its vo plugins).
>
>  The  idea  of panscan is simple: we have a 16:9 movie to watch. When we
> watch it on 4:3 screen, there are black bars - above and below. Not  go­
> od.  We  can  rescale the whole movie, but then it looses aspect. So why
> won't we do it like this: resize vertically, to fill  the  screen,  thus
> deleting the black bars, and then cut a bit from the left and right size
> ­ and center on the full screen. In this way, we get a nice aspected mo­
> vie, a bit crippled though ;)
>
>  So then - how, and if can we do it in mplayer?
>
>  I  think one can fiddle with proper -vop, but the drawback is, you have
> to recalculate the values for it for yourself.
can be done with -vop scale and crop, however you could modify the crop filter 
so it support auto-cropping the 4:3 center of image, if no params given.
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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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