[MPlayer-users] mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -vf scale ...... is it just not possible?

[LGW]

Maximo Ramos wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi!!
>
>mencoder file -oac copy -ovc copy -vf scale=512:240
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>or ...
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>mencoder file -oac copy -ovc copy -vf scale -zoom -xy 512 -mc 0 -sws 2
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>None of them works, they just give me the original width:height.
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>Do I really need to reencode?
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>  
>
Simple answer: yes.

At least most codecs won't make it possible to freely scale the video 
data without reencoding.

-ovc copy << COPIES the stream. Byte by byte...

good luck :)
  Lars