[MPlayer-users] encoding mpegs for windows users

[The Wanderer]

Matthias Wieser wrote:
> From /DOCS/en/encoding.html:
> 
> | This feature can be used only with libavcodec's mpeg4 codec. Keep
> | in mind: although MPlayer will correctly play the created file,
> | other players will use the wrong aspect ratio.
> 
> This sounds like "mplayer proprietary". Do you really know that there
> is *no* other player which will correctly play those files? Otherwise
> encoding.html should be changed.

That's not what it says.

The piece of documentation you quoted says that other players will not
use the relevant information. This does not mean that *no* other players
will do so, only that there are other players which will not.

I admit that the phrasing, though precise, is easily open to
misinterpretation - but given that a paragraph making the matter
explicitly clear is immediately above it, as quoted by Gabucino in
another post, I don't think expecting people to make the connection
between the two is at all unreasonable.

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