On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Some 4:3 TVs however, have a 16:9 enhanced mode. In this mode, they take the
> > full vertical resolution signal and squish the scan lines into a 16:9
> > letterbox area. This will give you more quality than throwing away the
> > resolution before
> Some 4:3 TVs however, have a 16:9 enhanced mode. In this mode, they take the
> full vertical resolution signal and squish the scan lines into a 16:9
> letterbox area. This will give you more quality than throwing away the
> resolution before you encode.
Do such TVs have enough vertical pixels
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you only watch the movie on a 4:3 TV, then it is both a waste of
> bits and a reduction in quality to encode the widescreen (anamorphic)
> version. Most (all? certainly the cheap ones) DVD players convert
> 16:9 material to 4:3 material by dropping
> That is what I thought. When encoding a widescreen movie with aspect ratio
> 16:9, black borders are not needed to expand the video frame, as is needed
> when encoding to a 4:3 aspect ratio. The aspect ratio will be preserved.
> Therefore all the bits in the encoded video are used in the origina
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:14:50PM -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I am in doubt about what aspect ratio to use
> > when encoding SVCDs from a widescreen source.
>
> 4/3
>
> > giving a better quality. When playing the
> > SVCD at a norm
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:20:08PM -0400, Alexei Dets wrote:
> Hi!
> On Monday 19 January 2004 5:14 pm, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> > As Alexei mentioned (and I have observed the same thing) many DVD/VCD
> > players do NOT perform the letterboxing function for SVCD/VCD. In
> > fact I
Hi!
On Monday 19 January 2004 5:14 pm, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> As Alexei mentioned (and I have observed the same thing) many DVD/VCD
> players do NOT perform the letterboxing function for SVCD/VCD. In
> fact I have yet to encounter a DVD player that will pay attention to
>
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am in doubt about what aspect ratio to use
> when encoding SVCDs from a widescreen source.
4/3
> giving a better quality. When playing the
> SVCD at a normal TV (aspect ratio 4:3), the
> DVD player will add black borders to fit
> the imag
Hi!
> Am I right expecting better quality results
> with a 16:9 aspect ratio in the SVCD?
Yes, except the fact that many DVD players doesn't correctly play 16:9
SVCDs :-(
Alexei
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Hello.
I am in doubt about what aspect ratio to use
when encoding SVCDs from a widescreen source.
For instance, today I have encoded a movie from
an AVI source with frame size 800x344 to SVCD
with both aspect ratios 4:3 and 16:9. For the
16:9 aspect ratio the needed black border at
the top and th
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