[MPlayer-users] Question about mencode

[David Philippi]

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 22:39, Haas Wernfried wrote:
> crop[=w:h:x:y] (e.g. crop=720:432:0:72 - take 432 pixels from the
> middle, crops away a 72 pixel bar up/down).
> output of cropdetect is quite useful for this.

Maybe you use a different version then I. Whenever I increase the x/y a 
mplayer rectange= shows me that it'll crop more on the left/top but never on 
the right/bottom.
BTW cropdetect didn't work at all for me, maybe because the first seconds 
where from another film, not requiring cropping.

But it seems like I shouldn't use crop at all since I got strange errors 
after I tried it. It did crop away some lines and the files played correct 
in mplayer and in windows. But when I opened the file with VirtualDub to cut 
out the commercials I got strange errors: it looked like every second line 
of 16x16 blocks was off by one block to the right. Strangely this error 
occured only in frame view - playing worked right.

I didn't perchance also overlook a way to cut the video with mencode? 
Something like a list of start/stop frames with skipping in between...

BTW I've found a translation error in the german manpage (the section with 
the error is not in the english manpage):

---------
Parameter:
 w,h   Ausgabe Höhe/Breite
---------

This is only partly correct - Höhe is height and Breite is width so it should 
be Breite/Höhe (the other way round is how it's usually spoken).

Bye David