how to crop black bars in movies on the fly?

[Sam Tygier]

i have a powerbook with a (one pixel off) 3:2 ratio screen (1280x854), so i get the problem on a few dvds that in encoded at 4:3 black bars.

in xine i press 'f' to go full screen, 'g' to hide the controls, and i think 'z' to zoom in untill the edges of the picture reach the edge of the screen.

sam

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?
> 
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