[MEncoder-users] 4X3 to 16X9 adding pillar-boxing

[James Hastings-Trew]

Laine Lee wrote:
> On 4/16/08 6:55 PM, "Tripp" <eliared at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> -vf scale=544:480,expand=720:480   .... -lavcopts  aspect=16/9
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> Thanks! This seemed to be working fine until I found that I didn't know how
> to use the vcodec=mpeg2video option for lavc without getting "too many
> packets in buffer" muxing errors. I was able to remedy this by adding
> filmdent before the scale filter, but that results in a great reduction in
> quality. Other deinterlacing filters I tried seemed to have no effect on the
> muxing errors. The source video is not telecined. Is there a way to
> accomplish this other than to demux, scale, then remux? Thanks again.
>
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read up: 
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd-lavc