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On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:05 +0200, Horst Schlonz wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">some movie files have black bars encoded in. this sucks.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">i know the mplayer video-filters "cropdetect" and "crop" but they are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">not user friendly. is there an ubuntu-way to crop the black bars on the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fly, so movies are played nice on non standard display aspect ratios?</FONT>
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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.<BR>
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mike<BR>
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