[MEncoder-users] cropdetect cuts off bottom of subtitles

[Raphael]

RC wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:36:39 +0000
> Raphael <mencoder at lesshaste.plus.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I am using
>>
>> mencoder -endpos 120 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o /dev/null -vf cropdetect
>> dvd.avi
>>     
>
> It's a bad idea to start at the beginning.  FBI warning, logos, etc.,
> can all cause problems with cropdetect.
>
> Also, cropdetect automatically rounds down, since it is necessary that
> your
> final video dimentions (after the use of crop, scale, expand, etc)
> before encoding are even multiples of 16.  See the man page.
>
> __

The part that I chopped out (120 seconds from the beginning) is the same 
part as I am testing. So shouldn't cropdetect work on that 120 seconds 
at least?  Also, shouldn't cropdetect round so that you may add a bit of 
border rather than risking chopping out important parts of the film?

Raphael