Hi,
A problem that I have run into a few times:
I can't find a convenient way to remove the black bars from letterboxed
content with non-square pixels and non standard aspect ratio.
An example:
Content with letterbox (62 pixels top and bottom) is 720x576 and has a
pixel aspect ratio of 1.42:1
Display aspect ratio is 1.78:1 (16:9), so the displayed image is
1024*576 including the letterbox and 1024*452 with the letterbox
removed. This gives a aspect ratio of 2.27:1 which to my knowledge does
not fit any of the predefined containers.
- With "Scale to" set to 16:9 the picture is not distorted but shown
with letterbox and not filling the container.
- Cropping top and bottom bar distorts the image because the display
aspect ratio is fixed and not the pixel aspect ratio.
- Changing "Scale to" to "no stretch" distorts the image because the
pixels are displayed square (which they really are not).
So what I need is a "Scale to" option that keep the pixel aspect ratio
fixed to whatever is reported with ffprobe (specified in the video
header?) - That way I can crop the image without distorting it.
Have I overlooked an obvious way to make the useful part of the image
fit the height of the container without distortion?
The example content is available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qeex6oautq8vlj/06_Oscar_1.mpg?dl=0
Cheers,
Christian