[MPlayer-users] please help test my mplayer widescreen converter wrapper script

[RC]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 21:13:48 -0500
"Daniel Manjarres" <danmanj2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool, but not a complete solution.  I have files at "4:3" which are
> letterboxed with VERTICAL bars too. 

On a widescreen display, pan&scan would work perfectly for removing
those.

> I have ntsc video captures that have a "black" level _above_ a
> cropdetect threshold of 35. 

How are you capturing these?  I've done literally thousands of files
over the past few years, and none have had any problems.  In fact I use
a threshold of 30.

> Let me rephrase: It samples an adaptive number of frames at 5
> different points in the file adaptively selected according to the file
> length.

Still, it's quite easy to script cropdetect to do that.

> The part of the script that is brittle is the crop detect. 

Speaking of which, a round parameter of "1" won't work.  2 is the
minimum.  Few formats can be cropped to odd dimentions.

> Even if it crashes mplayer it will still at least play, 

Same here (scripting cropdetect).