[MPlayer-users] help wanted: using mencoder to make NTSC DVD from transport stream

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 03:38:26PM +0200, Ville Saari wrote:
> I wouldn't use uneven scaling anyway. I prefer cropping if I want to
> align blocks. Not that I could see a few pixels of stretching in the
> image, but just the knowledge that it is there disturbs me. This
> stretch-phobia in me is probably caused by the people who prefer
> watching 4/3 stuff on 16/9 TV:s in stretched mode and claim to see
> nothing wrong in it.

You need to understand that these two things are on entirely different
orders of magnitude.. This is a phobia and nothing more; there's no
rational reason not to do the scaling.

Rich