[MPlayer-users] Change Aspect Ratio

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:48:26PM -0300, "Germán G. Estévez" wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>    Thank you to all for the answers and for the jokes. You are right, 
> is not sense to change the aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3 without cut the 
> borders, but how make the television versions 4:3 of widescreen movies, 
> I believe that versions are not cutted, perhaps I am mistaken, perhaps I 
> imagene that.
>   The conclusion from that you say is that the version of widescreen 
> movies that broadcast in TV are cutted ?.

Yes. However, they don't always just cut the same amount off both
sides; usually someone adjusts the cutting per-scene, and sometimes
the visible region even pans during a scene. Also I imagine they
sometimes scale it a bit and mess up the aspect if they need to fit
something that's just slightly too wide on the screen.

Rich