[mythtvnz] Ratios, Was Building a new box using an ASUS A8N-VM CSM board

[Steven Ellis]

David Zanetti wrote:

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>When I had my PVR based on an SAA7134, I recorded everything in 352x576.
>No-one seemed to notice. And if you can throw away half the pixels with
>no-one noticing, it's going to improve what the encoder bitrate has to
>encode.
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I used 352x576 in my early days as it is a DVD compliant format (1/2 D1).

Yes often no one could notice :)

Steve


>480x480 is probably more horizontal than is possible over a cable (480
>vertical is visible for NTSC), but there's no real harm in scaling it
>back up to 4:3 when you can't resolve that level of detail anyway :)
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