[MPlayer-users] Ripped DVD got wrong aspect ratio?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:13:19PM -0300, martin pavon wrote:
> But, how long is the movie? ... The quality  is not only an issue of the
> resolution. Sometime ago (one or two months) there was a very interesting
> discution about this in the trasncode ML (I think I can find the link to
> the thread if you want). The point is  you must keep an eye in the bit per
> pixels too;  is very posible that a  720x480 movie looks worse than the
> same movie at 640x272 at the same videobitrate... Of course 3 cds are

Not only very possible, but guaranteed! Same bitrate will ALWAYS look
worse at higher resolution!

Rich