[MPlayer-dev-eng] problem with -vop

[Corey Hickey]

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.
> 

Quite possibly you've ended up with mis-matched versions of mencoder and
mplayer. Make sure both of them are a recent version ("recent" = 1.0pre2
or latest CVS (the latter being better)).

> A sugestion: if -vop does'nt work well and it was replaced with -fv, 
> remove -vop option.

That happened a long time ago. :)

-Corey