[MPlayer-users] Digitizing VHS tapes with mencoder

[Krzysztof Duchnowski]

On 21.04.2010 23:32, Josef Wolf wrote:

> So to avoid scaling (I assume scaling reduces quality) and keep multiples
> of 16, I crop to 752x560. But this results in bad aspect ratio.
> 
> The next resolution with proper aspect and both axes multiples of 16 would
> be 704x528. But that would mean to throw away about 16% of the pixels. I'd
> rather not throw away _that_ much.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You have 2 options:
1) stay with AVI and add black border
2) remux from AVI to MKV or MP4 and add aspect info to the file (can be
done easily during muxing)

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