ffmpegX : fast mpeg1 encoding and letterboxing ?

[Pix]

Hi again,

since ffmpegX 0.0.4d (I don't remember exactly), you can letterbox your non 16/9 (let's call them anamorphic ?) movies thanks to the VCD option (which uses mpeg2enc for compressing). I think that's not new

But in fact I prefered when ffmpegX was using ffmpeg to encode (now it's called fast mpeg1) : it was incredibly faster, and the quality is much better.

Only problem, no way to letterbox a movie with this option.

Does anyone have a method to force this letterboxing, either before or after encoding or in ffmpegX itself ? Can this be achieved with the cropping options ? (like some kind of negative cropping ???)

Thx

Pix

[Pix]

Mmmm..well

it seems that the ffmpeg engine (I did not say ffmpegX) is really far from the other engines now (mencoder or mpeg2enc)....
Fast, but incomplete.

Back to them, then