Latest mencoder can't resize

[WalterK]

I recently compiled the latest mplayer MPlayer 1.0rc2.
And for playing videos and regular encoding with mencoder it works.
But i just tried to transcode and resize a video , and it completely ignored the argument for resizing.
I am wondering if theres a new argument i have to input or something.
here are the arguments i have tried

mencoder fullmovie.wmv -vf scale -zoom -xy 1280 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts chroma_opt:vhq=4:bvhq=1:quant_type=mpeg:bitrate=4000 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -ofps 30000/1001 -o fullmovie_01.avi

mencoder fullmovie.wmv −vf scale=1280:720 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts chroma_opt:vhq=4:bvhq=1:quant_type=mpeg:bitrate=4000 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -ofps 30000/1001 -o fullmovie_01.avi


The transcode works but the resize does not any ideas what could be wrong?
Oh these are 1080p wmv-hd files hence the need for transcoding and resizing (my monitor does go beyond 1280 unfortunately)

[nm]

You might get better answers on the MEncoder user's mailing list, but I can say that the second command line should work fine. I have MPlayer/MEncoder r24077 installed and they scale without problems.

Which machine architecture (x86, x86-64, ppc, ...) are you on?
How about running mencoder with the -v parameter? Does it reveal more details on why the scale filter gets ignored?

[WalterK]

well i searched and searched couldn't find anything about this on the mencoder mailing lists or anything on the man pages.

Finally i uninstalled and recompiled mplayer and ffmpeg resize works now.