[MPlayer-users] Missing term in mencoder/vcd/-lavcopts documentation?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 3:17 PM,  <aw585 at lafn.org> wrote:
>
> In section 14.8.2.1 of the documentation,
> for encoding content for DVD/VCD etc. it mentions specifing an
> aspect ratio for for 'Fullscreen' (4/3),
> using
>
> -lavcopts aspect=4/3
>
> This is the aspect ratio for
> (S)VCD's mentioned in section 14.8.1.1.
>
> Then in section 14.8.5, this is missing from the suggested
> overall commands for encoding for (S)VCD.
> For example, it says
>
> 14.8.5.6. NTSC SVCD
>
> mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xsvcd  -vf \
>    scale=480:480,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts \
>    vcodec=mpeg2video:mbd=2:keyint=18:vrc_buf_size=917:vrc_minrate=600:\
> vbitrate=2500:vrc_maxrate=2500:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ofps 30000/1001 \
>    -o movie.mpg movie.avi
>
> where I should be:
>
> mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xsvcd  -vf \
>    scale=480:480,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts \
>    vcodec=mpeg2video:mbd=2:keyint=18:vrc_buf_size=917:vrc_minrate=600:\
> vbitrate=2500:vrc_maxrate=2500:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224:aspect=4/3 \
>     -ofps 30000/1001 -o movie.mpg movie.avi
>
> (note the added ':aspect=4/3' on -lavcopts's settings.)
>
> Am I misunderstanding something here?
> With out this term, the output seemed square and not 'full screen'
> on the case where I noticed this.

Thanks for reporting this problem, I just fixed this problem.

(and sorry for the delay :-) )

Guillaume
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