Confused about anamorphic rendering with ffmpeg

[matthew1471]

Handbrake has an option to use strict anamorphic rendering... this removes the black bars from the top and bottom of converted vobs when I watch them on my touch hd.

I can't seem to find an alternative to this in ffmpeg? (I have a Linux server which I want to use for encoding).

Would it be just cropping the 62 pixels at the top and bottom of the vob? (I don't think this is right).

I think I've probably mis-understood something!

Any advice would be great.

[Case]

Googling for "strict anamorphic rendering" returns just your post, so that doesn't help much in figuring out what they mean by that.

[matthew1471]

lol, yeah, that's not much help!

I've done a lot of googling, but can't seem to find an answer.

I'm starting to think tha cropping hte black bars, then resizing the frame is the same.