[MPlayer-dev-eng] problem with -vop

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:10:32PM -0300, Alejandro Néstor Vargas wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:44:27 -0500, D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> 
> wrote:
> 
> >>Mencoder crashes with a "crop: bad position/width/height - cropped area 
> >>is out of the original!" message.
> >
> >Because you're cropping after scaling! Switch the order of the two
> >filters on the command line, or else use the -vf option instead of
> >-vop (which is in the opposite, much saner order).
> 
> We've solved the problem. It was not with the order. We WANT to do the 
> things in that order. The problem is -vop does not work in mencoder, we had 
> to use -vf... and -vf does not work in mplayer.

Not true...unless perhaps you're using ancient outdated versions, in
which case you should _not_ be reporting bugs, but upgrading instead!

> A sugestion: if -vop does'nt work well and it was replaced with -fv, remove 
> -vop option. Another sugestion: make mplayer use the same options as 
> mencoder.

How about this suggestion: RTFM and stop acting like a know-it-all
jerk.

Rich