[MPlayer-users] mencoder adding a border to a movie

[Nico Sabbi]

scott at bonnag.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to encode and scale 16:9 films from dvd to 4:3 but preserve the aspect 
> ratio.  I want the films to appear widescreen but add a black border to and 
> bottom.
> 
> I have found this on the man page:
> mencoder dvd://2 -vf scale -zoom -xy 512
> 
> which almost does it, but I want to add black to the top and bottom to make it 
> 4:3.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 


read the manual about the options of -vf scale (-2 and -3) and add 
expand= as second filter