[MPlayer-users] Widescreen Question (To scale or not scale)

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi,

On 7 Lan 2007 20:29 Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> I'm wondering what's the best thing to do when you want to
> encode a DVD chapter from a 16:9 DVD.  Let say I just want to
> create an avi file (with lavc) .  Which one of the 2 options is
> the recommende one?
>
> 1-  No scaling and I'll specify in the filter that the source
> has an aspect ratio of 16:9.  The video will be encoded at
> 720x576 and during playback (as it has the widesreen flag set)
> the player will play it at 1024x576
>
> or
>
> 2- Should I scale the video to 1024x576 (without specifying it's
> a widescreen aspect ratio) during encoding so that the final
> video itself is at 1024x576?

Do NOT upscale unelss you want to waste bits on your hdd. Just set 
proper aspect ratio when encoding. (Note: this is metioned in the 
docs (encoding-guide) as often as possible).
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