[MPlayer-users] Using -aspect in mencoder

[Steffen Barszus]

Am Montag, 15. Juli 2002 20:33 schrieb Frederick Grim:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Stefan Lange wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > 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
>
> so using -vop changes nothing...the aspect is still incorrect.
>

So you have to choose the right parameters for -vop scale . What aspect has 
the input or what resolution ? Worked here several times ...

Greets

Steffen