# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1052090484 0 # Node ID b4aaa64d6354f431da0e0c56e69f233a21b4bd2d # Parent e9a63883687c28c120bb3febb71b605276923048 Error in the aspect ratio calculation, plus typos and rewordings. Noticed by Jason Tackaberry . diff -r e9a63883687c -r b4aaa64d6354 DOCS/en/encoding.html --- a/DOCS/en/encoding.html Sun May 04 22:23:22 2003 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/en/encoding.html Sun May 04 23:21:24 2003 +0000 @@ -290,11 +290,11 @@

7.9 Preserving aspect ratio

DVDs and SVCDs (i.e. MPEG1/2) files contain an aspect ratio value, - which describes how should the player scale the video stream, so humans + which describes how the player should scale the video stream, so humans won't have egg heads (ex.: 480x480 + 4:3 = 640x480). However when encoding to AVI (DivX) files, you have be aware that AVI headers don't store this value. Rescaling the movie is disgusting and time consuming, there - must be a better feature!

+ has to be a better way!

There is.

@@ -308,13 +308,13 @@ other players will use the wrong aspect ratio.

You seriously should crop the black bands over and below the movie image. - See the manpage about the usage of the cropdetect and + See the man page for the usage of the cropdetect and crop filters.

Usage:

$ mencoder sample-svcd.mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts - vcodec=mpeg4:aspect=16.0/9.0 -vf crop=714:548:0:14 -oac copy -o output.avi

+ vcodec=mpeg4:autoaspect -vf crop=714:548:0:14 -oac copy -o output.avi