[MPlayer-users] Mencoder feature/bug ?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> but... ;)
> If i play my movie (7 years in tibet... still ;) with mplayer, it becomes
> wide-screen. If i encode it with mencoder, it's encoded in a less wide
> aspect ratio.
> Now, while playing the DVD in mplayer, it tells me something about using a
> pre-scaler (sorry, dont have output handy at the moment).
> 
> Is this a bug due to lacking pre-scaler support in mencoder ?
> or.. is this a feature, because the pre-scaler just makes the "narrow"
> movie play as "wide" in mplayer ?

mplayer scales image if aspect ratio info in header says it.
byt avi files has no such header, so you should use the -aspect option.
and, as usual, RTFM :)

> 
> 
> Oh yes.. the "tingling sound" problem isnt fixed yet with the CVS release
> of mplayer. I'm going to export a vob from my laptop to my desktop so i
> can try playing it with a different soundcard (not easily tried with a
> laptop). I'll keep you informed.
> 
> 
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