[MEncoder-users] to crop or not to crop for DVB sources, aspect ratio issues?

[Pierre Catello]

2007/2/9, Dieter <freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com>:
>
> Wouldn't the black borders be highly compressable and thus not
> use much space?

I have done some measurements with xvid encoding constant quantizer (q4)
 on few 90min recordings, between 720x576 (no cropping) and cropped at
720x432 (cropped) :

the extra space is between 5 and 7% (920-990 MB)