[MPlayer-users] Cropping video edges

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 05:58:01PM +0000, Dom H wrote:
> On 27 November 2010 07:57, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:17:57PM +0000, Dom H wrote:
> >> My DVB recordings seem to contain some garbled edges (visible on
> >> playback due to no overscan on the output) What's the best way to crop
> >> a small percentage and maintain aspect to mimic a little overcan? The
> >> crop filter seems to take absolute dimensions as an input which isn't
> >> really what I'm after.
> >
> > -panscan together with -panscan-range might work best and can be changed
> > at runtime with the 'w' and 'e' keys.
> 
> Doesn't seem to do anything if the video isn't wider than the display.

Then you set -panscan-range wrongly.