[MPlayer-users] Ripped DVD got wrong aspect ratio?

[j.a.l]

Diego Zuccato wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Martin Pavon wrote:
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> 
>>Yes, you must scale (and probably crop). Any way your movie is not 4:3,
>>it is 1.5:1
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> Well, it quite perfetly fills my LCD, so I thought it was 4:3.
> 
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>>mplayer Ryan.avi -aspect 16:9; it must look fine.
> 
> Yep. I told it in a previous mail... or not?
> But I want a file playable WITHOUT using -aspect 16:9 !
> 

so you have to scale it while encoding, add in mencoder option : "-vop 
scale=640:362" ( see man page ), this is very low, ( just exemple ), 
chose something with h=w/1.777, DON'T set "scale 1024:576", this will 
create a corrupted movie. You can scale from you current movie