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 every 4th line, rather than > by doing any quality interpolation. Far better to do the scaling
If if the DVD player does do quality interpolation, you're still wasting one fifth of your bits encoding the lines it interpolates away. 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. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
