[MPlayer-users] Aspect ratio with .ogm files?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Guillaume Cocatre-Zilgien wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Adam Nielsen wrote:
> 
> >So rather than stretch the video horizontally, I'd rather encode it as is 
> >and have mplayer stretch it back out on playback.  At the moment I have to 
> >use the -aspect 4:3 option to do this, so I was wondering whether mplayer 
> >supports any other flags in either XviD or ogm files that can make this 
> >process automatic.
> 
> From the documentation:
> "MPEG4 has an unique feature: the video stream can contain its needed 
> aspect ratio. [...] This feature can be used only with  libavcodec's 
> mpeg4 codec."
> http://docs.skamp.net/software/mplayer/encoding.html#aspect
> 
> So unless you switch to libavcodec's mpeg4 codec, from what I read, I 
> don't think there is a solution to your problem.

And there's no reason not to switch to lavc. From my experience it's
same or higher quality than xvid, and much faster.

Rich