[MEncoder-users] mpegopts vaspect vs. lavcopts apsect

[Trent Piepho]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Nicolas Hesler wrote:
>
> Let's say I'm transcoding a video from 1280x720 (with a broken aspect
> ratio) to 720x480 at 16/9.   If the source is transcoded to 720x480 and
> lavcopts aspect is set to 16/9, is there any advantage to fixing the
> broken aspect ratio in mpegopts?  Doesn't it end up being the same thing
> in the end?

If your converting something that's ATSC 720p to a DVD, you should scale
1280x720 to 704x480, not to 720x480.