[MPlayer-users] MPlayer works like a charm, just need a few tips!

[Pierric Descamps]

Hi,

> I want to crop the video without having to re-encode the 
> AVI file (thus resulting in a loss of quality), so that the aspect ratio 
> of the output file is 16:9 like it should be. 

I don't think this is possible, because altering the picture in any way means
reencoding, as every part of the picture depends more or less on all other
parts (this sentence = a silly way to make it simple).

> I have tried ripping each side, then cat'ing each of those 
> files into mplayer with streamdump and - (to use stdin). 

I've never tried it, but doesn't "mencoder -OPTIONS file1 file2" work if the
file are the same format?

I hope these answers can help...
Pierric.

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