[MPlayer-users] Using -aspect in mencoder

[Frederick Grim]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Stefan Lange wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Frederick Grim wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >Howdy,
> >
> >  I have read through the man pages and no matter what I do I can not
> >  get a proper aspect ratio to the movie I am trying to encode.  I am
> >  using the command
> >
> >  nice mencoder -pp 0x2000 -dvd 1 -aspect 4:3 -ofps 23.976 -ovc divx4 \
> >  -divx4opts br=2000:q=5 -pass 1 -o the_gift.avi
> >
> 
> -aspect is _not_ a mencoder option.
> use -vop scale=x:y where x and y are the desired values for width and 
> heigt of the output video. choose x and y such that x:y=aspect
> 
> for example: -vop scale=640:480 should result in a video with width=640 
> and height=480, with an aspect ratio of 640:480=4:3

so using -vop changes nothing...the aspect is still incorrect.
> 
> 
> >  but I have tried different values for aspect, used lavcopts, deleted
> >  ofps and/or pp.
> >
> >  distro: debian woody
> >  kernel 2.4.18
> >  libc-2.2.5.so
> >  Xfree 4.1.0
> >  gcc 2.95.4
> >  GNU ld version 2.12.90.0.1 20020307 Debian/GNU Linux
> >  GNU assembler 2.12.90.0.1 20020307 Debian/GNU Linux
> >  
> >  I want the faces to quit looking so long...Is this feature broken?
> >  Thanks
> >
> >                                  Fred
> >
>