There's a bug in crop detection code in the CVS version of mplayer. it does not work if i add -vo null crop area: X: 720..0 Y: 576..0 (-vf crop=-720:-576:720:576),0% 0 0 0% With any othe -vo it's ok: crop area: X: 0..557 Y: 4..569 (-vf crop=558:566:0:4) 0% 0,0% 0 0 0% gr, Tomek