how to crop black bars in movies on the fly?

[Michael R Head]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:05 +0200, Horst Schlonz wrote:

> some movie files have black bars encoded in. this sucks.
> 
> i know the mplayer video-filters "cropdetect" and "crop" but they are
> not user friendly. is there an ubuntu-way to crop the black bars on the
> fly, so movies are played nice on non standard display aspect ratios?


I use totem to view my video files. When a video's aspect ratio isn't
detected properly, I keep pressing 'a' until it looks right. Perhaps
this will help you, too.

mike

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