[MPlayer-users] I wrote a mencoder mini-guide for DVD ripping

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

D Richard Felker III writes:

> Encoding will be much faster if you crop *before* scaling! I'm not
> sure if mencoder will get the aspect stuff right automagically if you
> do it in this order though, but...

something like -vop scale=640:-2,crop=704:428:6:74 works nicely (but
does not do the optimal modulo 16 rounding).

Kim Minh.