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 > the aspect ratio flags in a SVCD MPEG file.
As I remember from some of my experiments my DVD player (Philips 724) understands 16:9 SVCD (at least in NTSC) but plays it a bit strange - it scales it so that the image doesn't have black bars at the top/bottom (or have them very small), something like with 2x zoom - aspect rate looks correct but left and right part of the image are lost :-((( 16:9 can be better even if player doesn't understand it and will play as 4:3 - if you can switch TV to 16:9 mode. In this case TV will use all available video information to construct 16:9 image, will add black bars by itself - no information will be lost. But AFAIK this doesn't work with all TV sets and will require manual intervention. Alexei ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users