[MPlayer-users] tool to test cropping

[Karsten Mueller]

Don't know anything about FlasKMPEG but you could try

mplayer -frames 200 -vop crop=your:test:crop:settings yourmovie.avi

That's the way I do the fine tunig on cropping. Works perfectly for me.

BTW: sometimes it seems necessary to have a look on a scene right in the
middle of a movie. Is it possible to tell mplayer the starting frame for
playback ?

"-ss" and "-sb" options do not seem to work :(

Anyone ?


Robert R. Wal wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi
> 
> Recently I'm switching to Linux with encoding DVD to DivX.
> 
> I've encountered one problem. I need the tool that would let me try
> cropping parameters on a picture from a movie, similar to one that is
> built into FlasKMPEG 0.6xx.
> 
> All I need is to open a video file, show one frame[1] of it and be able
> to test resize and crop parameters on it while seeing the whole picture
> resized, and crop bounds at the same time. Ability to retain aspect
> ratio while resizing would be additional benefit, but is not necessary.
> 
> Has anyone seen such a tool on Linux?
> 
> Robert
> 
> PS. Obviously I meen gui tool of some sort if I want to actually see the
> picture ;) But the command line tool that would show me what I want to
> see based on command line parameters will do.
> 
> [1] with possibility to seek another if selected one is too dark to see
>  the black borders
> 



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