[MPlayer-users] About 16/9 option of libavcodec

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Jan 7 19:17:09 CET 2003


On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:35:58PM +0100, Pere Castañer Sardà wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I don't see people using this feature of libavcodec. In fact is very
> useful for ripping dvds without scale the movie, but all people that I
> read in this list use -vop scale options...is perhaps the problem of
> linux/win compatibility or only missing knowledge?

MPlayer is the only player which supports the aspect in the mpeg4
headers, so that may be one reason. :)

Also, normally you have to scale down movies to get reasonable quality
on a CD to begin with, so you might as well scale to square pixels
while you're scaling.

Rich



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