[MEncoder-users] mencoder ignores mf h/w (height/width) options?

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 08:48:42AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> >>But shouldn't the "-mf h" and "-mf w" options control the output
> >>h/w? In "man mencoder" I find:
> >
> >No, absolutely not. They tell the mf demuxer the _input_ width and
> >height for cases where it can't be automatically determined.
> 
> Ah, okay, so it's just the documentation that's buggy. Because the
> documentation says:
> 
>        -mf <option1:option2:...>
>               Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files.
> 
>               Available options are:
> 
>                  w=<value>
>                       output width (default: autodetect)
>                  h=<value>
>                       output height (default: autodetect)
> 
> See? It says *OUTPUT* width/height.
> 
> Where should I report this error?

You just reported it to me, and I fixed it. :)
I guess no one had noticed that it was wrong in the docs.

> >If you want to resize the video you need to use the scale filter like
> >always.
> 
> Care to expand on that?

-vf scale=800:532

Rich