[MPlayer-users] VCD aspect ratio

[Matthew W. Miller]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:49:28PM +0200, Tommy wrote:
>when encoding a VCD mpeg file from my valuable original DVDs, the
>result is shown with the wrong aspect, the black bars are too small,
>the people have cone heads.

You're encoding from an anamorphic (aspect ratio 16:9) DVD, I presume?
Try adding the following to your mencoder command line:

NTSC:
-aspect 20:11 -vf (...,)crop=704:480,scale=352:360,expand=352:480(,...)

PAL:
-aspect 20:11 -vf (...,)crop=704:576,scale=352:216,expand=352:288(,...)
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