[MEncoder-users] mpegopts vaspect vs. lavcopts apsect

[Nicolas Hesler]

Trent Piepho wrote:
> 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.
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Isn't the scaling handled by the DVD player? The more horizontal 
resolution the better, right?