[MPlayer-users] Automatic scaling

[Tony Houghton]

In <20070830130911.5970d0cd.cooleyr at gmail.com>, RC wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:21:58 +0100
> Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I've tried -noaspect but it seems to have no effect.
> 
> Works just fine here.

I didn't mention I was also using crop so that may have been affecting
it too.

> > The only way I've found to do this is try an arbitrary -aspect
> > setting, see how much it thinks it has to rescale then adjust the
> > -aspect to compensate.
> 
> You could set the aspect to the dimentions.  -vf scale=640:480 -aspect
> 640/480.  Also -vf dsize.

-aspect might not be predictable because of the cropping, but -vf dsize
looks very useful. Thanks to Kevin DeKorte too. I've got some promising
new things to try now.

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