[MEncoder-users] How to encode a DVD

[Nico Sabbi]

Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:

>You can see that I scaled it from 576x304 to 720x380, multiplying width
>and height by 1.25. I then expanded to 720x480 to achieve NTSC
>dimensions.
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-vf scale=720:-10,expand=720:576

>The problem is I don't have a DVD player to test it. I don't even have
>a DVD drive in my PC (I'm creating a file and I will burn the DVD in a
>friend's computer). I am burning this DVD for my girlfriend. 
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>So I can only test by invoking mplayer on the generated file.
>When I invoke mplayer on opaio.mpg (which is not finished yet), I can
>see that the aspect is wrong. Will this play correctly on the hardware
>DVD player?
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no

>If not, will I be able to correct the aspect of the movie without
>completely reencoding it?
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>Another doubt: I live in Brazil; here we use PAL-M, which means PAL
>color encoding with NTSC frequency and dimensions. Thus, our TV is 30
>fps. This movie is 24000/1001 fps. I am leaving it at this frequency (I
>am not resampling), hoping that a PAL-M player can play 24000/1001 fps.
>Am I correct?
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>Thank you for your attention. 
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see the other post