[MPlayer-users] A little OT: 720x576 or 768x576?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 05:43:47PM +0200, Carsten Schultz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> Hi Fabio!
> 
> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:54:03PM +0200, Fabio Papa wrote:
> > 	I'm using mencoder lately to capture some of my favourite TV
> > programs, and I was wondering, if PAL format is 720x576,
> 
> Is it?

PAL format is 576 lines (approximately) visible at 25 fps. It's a
continuous analog signal, so there is no horizontal resolution per se,
but because of band limiting it's probably sufficient to capture at
720x576.

Rich