[MPlayer-users] Encoding

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:10:23PM -0800, m.mohr at laposte.net wrote:
> How can I force mencoder to nto change the movie aspect / scale?  Encoded
> movies almost always are nto in the original aspect ratio (16:9) and are
> 'shrunk' to say 12:9 or something like that.  is there a flag I can pass
> to mencoder?

You have two options:

1, scale the movie so so that it has square pixels. You probably need
to scale anyway to align the size to a multiple of 16 and make it
compress better.

2, use the aspect=a/b or autoaspect lavc options to store the aspect
in the encoded file. Note that most player apps will ignore the
encoded aspect because they suck.

Rich