[NUUG video] Resolution on compressed video (384x288 vs 360x288)?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sun Sep 21 20:02:05 CEST 2008


[Herman Robak]
> Since the aspect ratio is supposed to be 4/3, this means 384x288
> gets square (well, almost...)* pixels.  Square pixels can be
> displayed without stretching on a computer screen. 360x288 would
> need to be scaled _up_ to 384x288, or the image would be too narrow;
> squashed and noticably distorted.

OK.  Seem like a good argument for keeping the resolution at 384/288.
I removed the file using 360x288 and is compressing all of 2007 to Ogg
Theora with the 384x288 resolution now.

Why is DV using aspect ration of 5/4 and not 4/3?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen


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