[MPlayer-users] advice on mencoder options

[anton]

I think it is starting to sink in now. Thanks heaps for all your 
patience (and Rich too!)
Cheers
Anton

Tuukka Toivonen wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, anton wrote:
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>>best scaling to use? I see there is -vf scale=... but there is also -x,
>>-y and -xy, and afaict this can be used in tandem -zoom. The Digilander
>>artiticle also mentions that -sws should be used to improve the quality
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>I recommend using just -vf scale=.. first. Then you can try improving
>the result with -sws if you like experimenting, but the other options
>probably aren't necessary at least for encoding.
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>>any point? Can I just scale to 640:360, regardless of whether the source
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>I have still no comment about aspect ratio, but encoded image size
>should be an integer multiple of 16. 360/16=22.5 which is not multiple of
>16, try 352=22*16 or 368=23*16.
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