[MPlayer-users] [PATCH] be CCIR-601ish about "-vf expand"

[Steven M. Schultz]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> This definitely should be optional since some movies will actually
> have background 0. In this case, it would be VERY ugly since the black
> borders would be brighter than parts of the movie...

	Computer generated movies that use nonstandard encoders could
	create such movies but other than that what broadcast/movie
	studio ignores CCIR-601 and sets their blacklevel wrong?

	Black is not 0/0/0 - it's 16/128/128.

> Black borders are also bad for your bitrate... :) The moral of the
> story? Don't use VCD... :)

	Pure black should compress quite well, shouldn't it?

	True - use DVD instead (more bits to play with) :)

	Cheers,
	Steven Schultz