[MPlayer-users] Re: Creating DIVX for Xoro HSD 400 with mencoder.

[Stefan Seyfried]

In article <3FD51334.80702 at icem.com>, Carsten Koch wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> James Lancaster wrote:
> ...
>> This may be it: the resolution.
> 
> Bingo. Thanks, James!
> 
> I rescaled to half size (384x288) and it now works.
> None of the other things (48 kHz audio, etc.) were required.
> 
> 384x288 looks really blurry compared to the original 768x576,
> so I will experiment with other resolutions to find the best
> possible quality.

try 720x576 since this is PAL DVD. Don't know if you can get
it to show it with correct aspect ratio though.

> The highest X resolution listed there is 720, which leads me to
> believe that this must be the limit of the HSD 400's chip.

probably not a limit of the decoder, but of the video output hardware
(if it is not just one single chip :-)

good luck

Stefan