[MPlayer-users] encoding questions

[Alexander Noé]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>IMO it's not worth trying to make the comparison. DVDs use extremely
>high bitrates to make up for the fact that the idiots mastering them
>don't (can't) crop black borders
>
Black borders should be 8x8-Blocks of Zeros after the quantization, 
meaning that you
only need the DC component. I cannot believe that this takes a 
noticeable amount
of data.




Alex