[MPlayer-users] cropdetect doubt

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:02:27AM -0300, Pablo Morales wrote:
> Hi there guy.
> 
> I was reading in the documentation that it's reads thats it's  a must to
> crop the black  stripes from the movie to rip in order to have a better
> quality,  I fire the mplayer with -vf cropdetect, it starts playing, but I
> get differents values. For a couple o seconds I've got  some values, then
> almost after 10 seconds another values, then it stabilizes and I've got a
> constant value for the rest of the movie, I want to know which of the values
> I have to pass to the crop= parameter, and if it really improves the movie
> quality..

Yes, it is an absolute necessity unless you're just going to encode at
insanely high bitrate or constant-quantizer.

Rich