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

[Hans Meine]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 13:10, ROED,HAAVARD (HP-Norway,ex1) wrote:
> expect it to support the mpeg4 aspect tag :( And finally, when a player is
> able to play ie mpeg4 video, it would be nice if it actually supported the
> -whole- standard.

There are many "standards" out there which are not anywhere near fully 
supported by most packages claiming just "support of foo". Even "full support 
of foo" often means "(except some stuff which we found unimportant)", and 
importance is often defined as "I think thats what many most people need". 
ATM I am thinking of IMAP, HTML, CSS, Postscript, SVG and others..
(It gets worse because there is often not "the" standard but an endless number 
of subversions and dialects.)

MPEG4 defines the mentioned tag, but no player except MPlayer supports it at 
the moment. (That might - hopefully - change in the future of course.)
It's a strange thing IMHO, because the same players recognize aspect tags of 
DVDs and SVCDs (which are both MPEG2). :-( 

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