[MPlayer-users] Using -aspect in mencoder

[Stefan Lange]

Frederick Grim wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Howdy,
> 
>   I have read through the man pages and no matter what I do I can not
>   get a proper aspect ratio to the movie I am trying to encode.  I am
>   using the command
> 
>   nice mencoder -pp 0x2000 -dvd 1 -aspect 4:3 -ofps 23.976 -ovc divx4 \
>   -divx4opts br=2000:q=5 -pass 1 -o the_gift.avi
> 

-aspect is _not_ a mencoder option.
use -vop scale=x:y where x and y are the desired values for width and 
heigt of the output video. choose x and y such that x:y=aspect

for example: -vop scale=640:480 should result in a video with width=640 
and height=480, with an aspect ratio of 640:480=4:3



>   but I have tried different values for aspect, used lavcopts, deleted
>   ofps and/or pp.
> 
>   distro: debian woody
>   kernel 2.4.18
>   libc-2.2.5.so
>   Xfree 4.1.0
>   gcc 2.95.4
>   GNU ld version 2.12.90.0.1 20020307 Debian/GNU Linux
>   GNU assembler 2.12.90.0.1 20020307 Debian/GNU Linux
>   
>   I want the faces to quit looking so long...Is this feature broken?
>   Thanks
> 
>                                   Fred
>