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



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