[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-1.0pre8 detecting wrong aspect ratio

[Nico Sabbi]

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> On 7/31/06, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:21:23 +0530
>> "Raj Kiran Grandhi" <grkiran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I find that mplayer detects a wrong aspect ratio for .dat files.
>>
>> As a shot in the dark, you might try with -vfm ffmpeg, and see if there
>> is any change.
>
> Thank you. The -vfm ffmpeg now scales the video correctly, but
> -identify still reports the aspect ratio as 0.0000.
>
> I use a script for encoding with mencoder. The script reads the aspect
> ratio from the output of -identify. Now with this problem, the script
> fails to detect the aspect ratio, and I am having to provide it
> manually.

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