On Friday 15 May 2009 04:44:49 whyohwhyohwhyoh wrote: > hello, > > i'm looking for suggestions about what's causing the following and > what the solution might be. the problem isn't directly related to > mplayer but i'm hoping that the solution might be or at least the > people on this list might know the answer or where else to look. > > i'm transferring some DVDs onto files so that i can stream them to > my PS3. > > for most DVDs, just doing... > > mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:lsaf > .... > > works fine. > > however, when i try that on my UK PAL "Spirited Away" DVD the > result plays stretched very wide - approx 2.3:1 - on the PS3. > > the file plays with the correct aspect ratio in mplayer. > > if plays with the stretched aspect ratio in totem (using gstreamer) > which gets the correct aspect ratio if it plays the film straight > from the DVD. > > even taking the data from the disc using tccat produces a file > which plays correctly in mplayer but too wide elsewhere. > > i don't even know where to look next. if i switch on verbose > output in mplayer is there something i can look for in amongst all > that data that would give a clue? > > tia > > PS huge, massive thanks for mplayer and mencoder - richly deserving > of all its awards. i've been a very happy user for many, many > years. :-D > some dvds have an incorrect A/R indication in the video stream itself, some (recent ones) even have a pan_scan indication that is completely broken. You can fix that using -mpegopts :vaspect and maybe patching :vpswidth and :vpsheight to 0 _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
