[MPlayer-users] BPP for Frame Size

[Jason Tackaberry]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:33 +0000, Mark Himsley wrote:
> This means that the actual aspect ratio of the encoded content is NOT 4:3 
> or 16:9 because of these extra pixels. The actual aspect ratio of the 
> encoded content is 1.3675 for 4:3 (not the expected 1.3333) and 1.8234 for 
> 16:9 (not the expected 1.7778).

What about for content that clearly occupies the full 720 pixels?  I
have seen a significant number of DVDs -- mostly newer stuff -- in which
the frame extends across all 720 pixels of the frame.  Should we
consider these to be fully 4:3 or 16:9?

Cheers,
Jason.