[MPlayer-users] mencoder how to remove black bars

[Fredrik Kuivinen]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:52:23AM -0700, Certron DiSoni wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> how would i go about removing a portion of the video image
> from the top and bottom of the source material? In this
> case, remove the letterboxing from a movie.
> 
> I read the man page and the encoding.html, but I see only
> -x and -y for the final size of the movie. Is there another
> way that is in mplayer/mencoder already? What is the
> 'proper' way to do this?
>

With current cvs you can do it with -x0, -y0, -xsize and -ysize (it
only works with mencoder). Those options will probably removed pretty
soon though and cropping will be done with the new filter layer
instead (for details see Arpis mail with subject "ANNOUNCE: video
filters").

/ Fredrik