[MPlayer-users] Automatic scaling

[Thomas Buchmüller]

mencoder -vop scale=x-value:y-value ...

scales the movie to the given size.

Bye Tom

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jukka Tastula wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thursday 02 May 2002 10:48, Frederik Klama wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to switch off the automatic rescaling in mencoder when
> > reencoding DVDs to DivX with libavcodev ?
> > Because all the widescreen movies rust get rescaled to fullscreen (egg
> > faces). I have read the manpage for mencoder and no switch described there
>
> Actually, mencoder keeps the aspect ratio as it is, but the video on the dvd
> you're encoding isn't in 4:3 but 16:9 aspect ratio. With mpegs this is no
> problem as it supports aspect ratios 4:3, 16:9 and (unfortunately rarely used
> and supported) 2.21:1 where as avis don't have this feature. So you'll either
> need to encode the non-16:9 video stream from the dvd, or use -aspect option
> to squeeze (or spread, if you have a 16:9 monitor/tv) the picture to its
> intended aspect ratio when playing the clip.
>
> I'm pretty sure mencoder has an option to squeeze the video before encoding
> too, but encoding the 4:3 stream from the dvd will probably give you better
> quality. Should be faster, too.
>
>
>
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