[MPlayer-users] mencoder: Removing black bars creates black line artifacts

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/26/07, Trevor Bradley <tgb at sfu.ca> wrote:
> Hey everyone.  I love mencoder.. It's great for batching up mpgs I've
> recorded with MythTV to convert to AVI.
>
> I've figured out how to remove the black bars at the top and bottom of
> widescreen programming.  Presently I'm using the following commands to
> transcode files:
>
> mencoder filename.mpg -quiet  -vf lavcdeint -vf crop=704:352 -ovc xvid
> -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o /dev/null
> mencoder filename.mpg -quiet  -vf lavcdeint -vf crop=704:352 -ovc xvid
> -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1300 -o filename.avi

[..]

> Thanks for your help!  Any advice would be appreciated.

s/-vf lavcdeint -vf crop=704:352/-vf lavcdeint,crop=704:352/g

You may want to use yadif instead of lavcdeint too.

Guillaume
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