[MPlayer-users] Why 720x540 as opposed to 640x480?

[RC]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:06:38 -0400
Jorge Fábregas <jfabregas at onelinkpr.net> wrote:

> why does mplayer  upscales (vertically) my NTSC DVD to 720x540 as
> opposed to horizontal  squeezing as in 640x480?  I know the goal is to
> obtain a 4:3 AR but isn't the  latter best for interlaced material
> (still keeping the 480 lines)?

If you downscale, you lose resolution for no good reason.

MPlayer really doesn't support interlaced playback, normally, so that's
a moot point.  Also, since that's hardware scaling, presumably whatever
interlaced playback video hardware you have will do the right thing.