[MPlayer-users] Widescreen Question (To scale or not scale)

[Nico Sabbi]

Jorge Fábregas wrote:

>In mplayer my videos play fine, as it detects the AR flag.  The problem is 
>that I'm encoding video for friends that use Windows (who are not that 
>computer literate, and for sure won't know how to change aspect ratio..).
>
>My point is..It's a shame these players in Windows, which are very popular in 
>that platform, won't detect the specified aspect ratio. I guess I should 
>write them :)
>  
>
it takes 2 minutes to download a precompiled mplayer for windows with 
the accompanying gui

>Meanwhile, I'll just scale my footage to 16:9 AR with these anamorphic 
>widescreen sources wasting a couple of bits :(
>  
>
you'll be dropping quality to the toilet

 
 
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