[MPlayer-users] mencoder/crop => image distortion

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 08 July 2003, ROED,HAAVARD (HP-Norway,ex1) wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Ofcourse, encoding with:
> 
> mencoder -dvd 14 -oac copy -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
> bitrate=1272:me_quality=5:4mv -vop crop=720:550:0:12 -o movie.avi
> 
> seems to give a good result, but then the black sidebands are in the video,
> too...
> 
> So rescaling is the only option? crop at 714:550:2:12, and rescaling to
> 704x502? Is that a good choice?

Make it 704x512 (because width and height must be a multiple of 16),
although it gives an AR of 1.375. I guess you could go for 704x304, 704x400
or 704x528, depending on the intended AR (although the bitrate is a bit too
low for such high-res encoding). What was the original ratio?

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