Cropping with Sage transcoder?

[ldavis]

Anyone know how to crop with transcoder. Basically, I would like to be able to convert HD shows to 480p avi (xvid w/AC3). This works great with true HD material but in the case with a 16x9 within a 4x3 within a 16x9 image, there is not enough resolution left for any kind of quality on the active pixels. I could just encode at full HD resolution but I would like the smaller file size, for better portability and playability (on lesser systems) if nothing else. Thanks in advance for your help.

[bcjenkins]

It runs ffmpeg, so whatever the cmd line in ffmpeg should be translated to the SageTV syntax for the profile.

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[ldavis]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

It runs ffmpeg, so whatever the cmd line in ffmpeg should be translated to the SageTV syntax for the profile.

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Well, the ffmpeg docuemetation says to put "-croptop 150" (for example to crop the top 150 lines) so I would guess the syntax would be croptop\=150 but I do not know where to put this as it appears to need to go next to the input file which the sage syntax does not have. Anyway here is what I tried but the encoder failed immediately

transcoder/formats/MPEG4-High\ Quality\ Deinterlaced & Cropped\ AVI=f\=avi;MCompressionDetails\=-vtag xvid -deinterlace;[bf\=vid;f\=mpeg4;br\=2000000;croptop\=150;cropbottom\=150;cropleft\=250; cropright\=250;aspect\=1.7777;w\=720;h\=480;fps\=29.97;][bf\=aud;]

[bcjenkins]

I would have thought you were on the right track. I would send it to support asking how/where to put the options.

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