[MPlayer-users] Distortion between different versions of MPlayer/Mencoder

[rcooley]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
> Never encode with width/height %16 != 0!! It will hurt quality a lot
> even without buggy encoders!
I'll try to do that, but it's not always that feasable...  I might need 
to cut off 5% vertically (widescreen), just to get rid of one line of 
black...  That's quite unfortunate.


> workaround flags will fix the problem, and Michael will probably find
> a way to make it auto-detect the bug so you don't have to manually set
> the flag...

Yes, that would likely work out much better.