[MPlayer-users] DVD/DiVX reader

[Martin Emrich]

Am Di, den 23.03.2004 schrieb tarass at club-internet.fr um 21:45:

> Hello,
> 
> if you crop when you encode but without scale, does it display correct 
> aspect ratio ?

Until now, it has played back everything with the correct aspect ratio.
Of course with MPEG4, it assumes square pixels; an extra aspect ratio
flag in the avi file seems to be ignored. So if you have an anamorphic
DVD (widescreen at 720x576 for PAL), which would be scaled to 1024x576
by the player has to be rescaled to e.g. 720x405 (or better 400 or 416)
to get the right aspect ratio, or you will get "Attack of the Coneheads"
;-)

Ciao

Martin