[FFmpeg-user] Padding in ffmpeg

[littlebat]

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 10:25:06 -0600
Jim Worrall <coniophora at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm far from an expert, but suspect you may need to scale the video
> down first, then add the padding.  You might try -s WxH, or
> -vf scale=W:H
> 
> I don't know what the difference is.  I would try to add one of these
> before your -vf pad=

I always expand or crop the source video to the proper aspect then
scale to the result video, with mencoder.

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littlebat