Cool. Thanks. So then, what command line would you add in order to activate
that filter? Or more specifically, what would the code be if I wanted to
lock the output width to 640 pixels, and have the height determined by the
aspect ratio of the source file?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM, slippyr4 <[email protected]> wrote:

> >
> >
> > If that can't work, I am trying to figure out how to not distort the
> aspect
> > ratio of the source video. If my source video is 16:9, and I encode it to
> a
> > preset that is 4:3, I want it to letterbox the video (place black bars on
> > top and bottom). I don't want it to stretch the video to the edges so
> that
> > everyone looks twice as tall.
> >
>
> i know nothing about winff, but you can scale maintaining aspect ratio
> specifying only one dimension with the scale filter in libavfilter. This is
> not integrated into the main repo yet, so you would need to build your own
> ffmpeg (or find a win32 binary) with libavfilter support to get that to
> work.
>
> i would guess the reason that main ffmpeg doesn't do what you want is that
> not all pixels are square - therefore picture aspect ratio is not the same
> as width/height. That's why libav* maintain aspect ratio and frame size
> quite separately.
>
> jon
> _______________________________________________
> libav-user mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
>
_______________________________________________
libav-user mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/libav-user

Reply via email to