CelticWhisper Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I have a video file that's a 4:3 representation of a 16:9 picture; that is, the top and bottom black bars are "hard-coded" into the video stream. I've tried cropping it with FFmpeg, but the result is always either unchanged or remains 4:3 with the 16:9 picture vertically stretched. Can anyone give me a little help in taming the cropping functionality of command-line mode FFmpeg to get this thing adequately cropped? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Got it. New question: Is there any way to losslessly crop a video file without the need to reencode? FFmpeg does a very good job of making a reencoded file look pretty, but I can still tell it was lossily recompressed. Using "-vcodec copy" results in no cropping being done. Using "-sameq" results in equal quality but a gigantic filesize. Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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