[MPlayer-users] Digitizing VHS tapes with mencoder

[Josef Wolf]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:43:40PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:32:56 +0200
> Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> 
> > But this results in bad aspect ratio.
> 
> This is quite vague.
>  
> > The next resolution with proper aspect and both axes multiples of 16
> > would be 704x528. But that would mean to throw away about 16% of the
> > pixels. I'd rather not throw away _that_ much.
> 
> No amount of cropping will EVER change your aspect ratio...  You can
> scale up/down the height/width, you can add black bars, or you can set
> an aspect ratio in the file.  
> 
> x264 should pickup the current aspect ratio, adjust for crop/scale and
> put that in the file.  Examine the output to determine why it is not... 
> You should be able to change the aspect x264 chooses by providing
> different values to -vf dsize while encoding.

Does that mean that the only thing I need to do is to remove the -aspect
option when encoding?

But then I would need to add the -aspect option when capturing, right?