[MPlayer-users] Changing aspect ratio in AVI file?

[Alexander Noe']

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

>>There is no reasonable way to set aspect ratio of an AVI file,
> 
> 
> Of course there is. Even two ways, defined by MPEG4 stream and by OpenDML
> AVI extension. These are standard. Too bad almost nobody except MPlayer
> respects these standards.

I've never seen a file having a video property header chunk...

>>so there is nothing it could honor (please don't say using
>>MPEG-bitstream aspect ratio in AVI files is reasonable!)
> 
> 
> Of course it is. After all, aspect ratio is a property of the video
> stream, isn't it?

Yes

> So where would you store it, if not in the stream?

In the headers, so that you do NOT need to manipulate the bitstream in 
order to change it?



regards,
Alex