[MEncoder-users] Scaling quality

[Steven Miller]

Thanks much for your thoughts!


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:09:05PM -0500, Steven Miller wrote:
> > Back to my initial question, I vaguely remember this topic coming up in
> the
> > past. I've searched my usual haunts with no luck. If I remember
> correctly,
> > the general consensus was that the quality loss was less on the y. The
> > reason is what I was hoping to find.. or re-find rather. These days I
> take
> > a good deal more notes.
> >
> > Thoughts? Speculations?
>
> Analog displays like TVs and CRT strictly speaking do not have a
> horizontal resolution, but only a vertical one.
> Also, for aspect scaling (e.g. for displaying a DVD on a LCD)
> it is customary to scale the x resolution.
> Since in addition the horizontal resolution is usually higher,
> I'd expect you'd generally risk fewer artefacts by scaling
> horizontally even for digital displays.
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