[MPlayer-users] Re: Can't get crop to work

[Rémi Guyomarch]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 07:25:13PM +0200, Fabrice DELENTE wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello all.
> 
> I tried to crop an avi file to reencode it (from 1.5gig to ~700M) but
> couldn't get the plugin to work.
> 
> When I issue this command:
> 
> mencoder file.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -ss 00:10:00 -endpos 00:00:10 \
>   -o test.avi -vop crop=480:100:0:160

You can't crop without re-encoding the video stream.
This is *not* an mplayer/mencoder limitation.

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Rémi