[MPlayer-users] encode to dvd useing nicos patch produce null size mpeg file!

[Nico Sabbi]

Heine Laursen wrote:

> Giacomo Comes wrote:
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>>> With more ore less unsuccisfull. So I'll do it the hard way.
>>> Try until I get somthing to work :-)
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>> Assuming a PAL DVD, and that the original video has an aspect ratio 
>> of 1.3, adding
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>
> That is correct.
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>>     -vf scale=702:576,expand=720:576
>> to mencoder will do the job.
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>
> Well that's basicley what I don't undarstand!
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> How can the aspect be 1.33 when it's not 1.33?
>
> 707 / 576 = 1.21
> 720 / 570 = 1.26
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> I'm confused :-(
>
> Sincerley
> Heine Laursen
>

simple. A/R 1.33 means that when played the x is resized so as to become 
1.33 * y, so
in your case 4/3 * 576 = 768