[MPlayer-users] Aspect ratio.

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 12/27/06, José Gabriel Moya Yangüela <josemoya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a trouble with aspect ratio in mplayer. Diving into list archives,
> I've seen this problem was reported with mplayer 1.0pre-8
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/45376/match=aspect
> but my copy of mplayer displays the version as CVS date only (MEncoder
> dev-CVS-050928-16:38-3.4.2), so I can't check it.
>
> The problem is: I have a (theoretically) 4:3 (really 5:6, 480x576) b/w
> picture captured from DVB. When compressing it with mencoder in a two-pass I
> get a 3:4 aspect instead of 4:3. Even when adding -aspect 4:3 I get a 3:4
> aspect ratio.

Does -aspect 3/4 work better?

Guillaume
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