On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:43:40PM -0700, RC wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:32:56 +0200 > Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote: > > > But this results in bad aspect ratio. > > This is quite vague. > > > The next resolution with proper aspect and both axes multiples of 16 > > would be 704x528. But that would mean to throw away about 16% of the > > pixels. I'd rather not throw away _that_ much. > > No amount of cropping will EVER change your aspect ratio... You can > scale up/down the height/width, you can add black bars, or you can set > an aspect ratio in the file. > > x264 should pickup the current aspect ratio, adjust for crop/scale and > put that in the file. Examine the output to determine why it is not... > You should be able to change the aspect x264 chooses by providing > different values to -vf dsize while encoding. Does that mean that the only thing I need to do is to remove the -aspect option when encoding? But then I would need to add the -aspect option when capturing, right?