[FFmpeg-user] sntsc

Kieran O Leary kieran.o.leary at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 21:37:54 EET 2023


Hi

On Tue 26 Dec 2023 at 17:25, Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:

> On 12/25/2023 1:04 AM, Mark Filipak wrote:
> >
> > Huh? "720x480 video with a display aspect ratio of 16:9" is what's on
> most
> > 'NTSC' DVDs.
>
> Huh? The vast majority of DVDs I've handled were 4:3 then maybe
> letterboxed
> to only show some wide-screen size (like 2.33:1).


This is the opposite of my experience where widescreen DVDs were encoded
anamorphically and were de-squeezed to the correct DAR. Very few were 4:3
with burnt in letterboxes.

Best,

Kieran


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