[MPlayer-users] Re: dvd rip(mencoder) using -aspect 16:9 (D Richard Felker III)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 02:22:00AM -0500, Nicolas Velasquez wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Sorry for the last one with bad subject.
> 
> 
> > > When I rip a dvd the aspect is screwed, but if I play the resulting avi
> > > like this:
> > > "mplayer movie.avi -aspect 16:9"
> > > then the movie plays with the appropriate aspect.
> > >
> > > I read in the man page that mpeg4 can store the aspect, but I want the
> > > windows users to be able to see the movie, I tried to rip like this:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Please read above!!!
> 
> > > "mencoder -aspect 16:9 -dvd-device ../dvd dvd://1 -vf crop=694:346:20:86
> > > -ovc lavc -oac copy -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=700 -o movie.avi"
> > >
> > > but without success.
> >
> > You have to use -lavcopts aspect=16/9, RTFM. However, windows players
> RTFMAIL
> 
> > suck and refuse to use this info, so you're probably better off just
> > scaling the movie to the right aspect (square pixels) before encoding.
> >
> > Rich
> 
> Any help is welcome.

I did read your mail. Did you read mine? It answered all your
questions!

Rich