Crop videos to 16:9 / 16:10

[Klumpen]

Hello everybody,

I have not found a video player for the OpenPandora that allows zooming or cropping out black borders on top and bottom from some moviefiles.

Some TV-Recordings have these and on all my other systems I just zoom or crop until they are gone.

SMPlayer2 = Video goes black if zoomed in.

VLC Player = does not do anything with these actions

VLC2 = cropping works in fullscreen, but crashes in fullscreen after 1-2 seconds

PanPlayer = program does not start at all

My codec pack is freshly installed

I searched the forum and found nothing about it

and would be thankful for any tips other than "edit your files".

greetings,

Klumpen

 

[captain_coconut]

The zoom function is not implemented in the omapfb driver which SMPlayer2 uses.

However it is still possible to achieve what you want by adding using a crop filter.

Under Options -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Options for MPlayer:

Under Video filters: put crop=<insert your values here>

From the mplayer manpage:

crop[=w:h:x:y]
              Crops the given part of the image and discards the rest.  Useful
              to remove black bands from widescreen movies.
                 <w>,<h>
                      Cropped width and height, defaults to original width and
                      height.
                 <x>,<y>
                      Position of the cropped picture, defaults to center.