Removing Black Borders (Another FFmpeg XviD Trick)

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You can use VirtualDubMod to determine the cropping values. Open the mpeg file, then go to "Video > Filters" in the menu. Press the "Add" button, select the first one in the list, then press "OK" to get back to the Filters window, where the "Cropping" button will now become active. In the cropping window, there is a slider, so you can search through the video to find a frame with a lot of white at the edges, to make it easy to see the black bars. Once you pick the best values, copy them down, exit VirtualDubMod, and put the values in your ffmpeg command line.

Remember the values used have to be divisible by 2.

I thought they had to be evenly divisible by 16?