[FFmpeg-user] loseless cropping from 1980x1088 to 1080 possible?

[Lou]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:52:36 -0500
gildororonar at mail-on.us wrote:

> Hello. I've got lots of video from a friend in resolution of  
> 1980x1088, and my screen resolution is 1980x1080. I hope to crop the 8  
> pixels from bottom so that my movie player doesn't have to shrink the  
> movie while playing.

You could have your movie player crop it upon playback:

ffplay -vf crop=iw:ih-8:0:0 input.mkv

Syntax for MPlayer is probably the same. You can also make file
specific entries in a MPlayer config file if you get tried of typing
the filter string, IIRC.