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

[Nico Sabbi]

Jorge Fábregas wrote:

>On Sunday 07 January 2007 2:08 pm, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
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>>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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>Got it. As always, thanks Andrew!
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>Jorge
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the best way to optimize quality is: crop all black bands, avoid 
rescaling and
embed the modified aspect ratio in the avi header (automatic)