[MPlayer-users] probably my usual stupid question of the week

[Jan Knutar]

> Well, that's pretty much the point of this patch.  I have a script
> that executes mplayer using cropdetect to automatically determine how
> much to crop.  I can't take a look at the numbers and sanitize them
> by hand. Also, doing any math in a script isn't really plesant, which
> is why it's a patch to mplayer.

I don't really like the idea of having cropdetect output values which 
are rounded/changed, to fit the constraints/preferences of one 
particular encoder/colorspace/decoder chain, solely for the purpose of 
making it a little bit easier to script with...