[MPlayer-users] Panscan.

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > you'll lose this way if the movie was shot on Super-35 and you crop the 
> > widescreen version of it.
> 
> In theory some DVDs might have the info where to pan the scan 4:3 area 
> during the scenes on the film, so it can be continually changing left to 
> right and vice versa.
> 
> Did I misunderstood sometinhg or this is a valid feature?

I've never heard about such thing, and didn';t seen it in IFO structures

> If valid, is it unexploited like the possibility to change viewpoints in a 
> DVD, or there are real DVD disks utilizing this?

you mean multiangle? it exists, and used by a few (not too many) disks.
and mplayer supports it, anyway i've never tested it (no such disk)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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