[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] nvenc: Compensate for hardware trying to mess with aspect ratio of DVD content.

[Kieran Kunhya]

On 17 January 2015 at 20:42, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> L'octidi 28 nivôse, an CCXXIII, Kieran Kunhya a écrit :
>> BT601 makes this very clear. The active picture is 702 pixels.
>
> There are two fundamental flaws with your reasoning:
>
> First, BT601 only applies to a some kind of videos. Wikipedia tells me it
> applies to "encoding interlaced analog video signals in digital video form";
> do you think it is wrong? For all other kind of videos, all this nonsense is
> just irrelevant.

And the digital signals that are recorded by my camera need to be
backwards compatible with the hundreds of millions of analogue TVs.
This forms almost the entirety of the set of 720x480 or 720x576 videos.

I don't make the standards and frankly whether you dislike them is
your problem but they exist and need to work correctly.
Instead you wish to break things based off an artificial test pattern
and your own beliefs.

Wikipedia seems to be wrong in a number of areas.

Kieran