[MPlayer-users] cropping

[VJ]

On 07/08/05, luis jure <ljc at internet.com.uy> wrote:
> 
> please excuse if the question is naive or even stupid, but is there a way to
> crop a video without re-encoding?
> 
> i have an avi file in mpeg-4 format that i play like this to crop black
> borders:
> 
> mplayer -vf crop=544:224:16:8 foo.avi
> 
> but it seems i can't just "dump" the output to a file. is that correct?

Read the man page. Filters work only if you ENCODE the file. 'ovc
copy' or dumping the streams does not use filters.

VJ