[MPlayer-users] Wrong aspect ratio when playing old mkv files

[andrew at WARnux.com]

On 12/23/2013 01:31 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Addon: mplayer plays correctly, but mencoder loses the dimensions
>> information when transcoding into another format using libavcodec.
> MEncoder is not an actively maintained application
> for several years, please use FFmpeg for transcoding.
>
> Carl Eugen
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I wish I could use FFMpeg for everything, but to the best of my 
knowledge, it doesn't do everything that I need.  I commonly need to 
de-telicine video (pullup filter, I believe), and only MEncoder does it.