[MPlayer-users] BPP for Frame Size

[Mark Himsley]

On 20 January 2007 15:05:55 -0500 Jason Tackaberry 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?

No. The PAR will not vary between some disks. How would the DVD player know 
what the PAR is? If you really want all of the 720x576 then you need to 
scale up to 1050x576

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Mark Himsley