Dr.Khron
14th April 2007, 04:27
When I select Smart anamorphic in the MeGUI AVS builder, it puts in a line to resize the video to 720x480, which is already the size of the source video . Therefore, this line seems sort of useless... what will the various resize filters do if asked to resize somthing to its current size? Will they leave the video alone, or will they process it somehow?
(in other words, is it worth deleting the unecessary line that MeGUI adds?)
Having tried it both ways, I'm still debating wether or not to resize my 4:3 TV episode encodes. I'm making MKV files, so I have the choice of resizing in AVS before encoding, or not resizing and setting the DAR flag instead.
It seems to me like it would be better to leave the video alone and encode at 720x480, relying on MPC to resize the video during playback... Encoding quality is best when you don't have to resize before hand, right?
On the other hand, when making video files for PCs, why not resize to square pixels once, instead of everytime you play the video? After all, we do de-interlace television content before encoding.
Furthermore, I recently discovered that you need to be using the "overlay mixer" option in MPC in order for the embeded DAR flag to work properly... without the Overlay, you get straight 720x. Then again, why would anyone use anything other then Overlay?
Are there any other hidden drawbacks to resizing during playback instead of doing it in the AVS before encoding?
(in other words, is it worth deleting the unecessary line that MeGUI adds?)
Having tried it both ways, I'm still debating wether or not to resize my 4:3 TV episode encodes. I'm making MKV files, so I have the choice of resizing in AVS before encoding, or not resizing and setting the DAR flag instead.
It seems to me like it would be better to leave the video alone and encode at 720x480, relying on MPC to resize the video during playback... Encoding quality is best when you don't have to resize before hand, right?
On the other hand, when making video files for PCs, why not resize to square pixels once, instead of everytime you play the video? After all, we do de-interlace television content before encoding.
Furthermore, I recently discovered that you need to be using the "overlay mixer" option in MPC in order for the embeded DAR flag to work properly... without the Overlay, you get straight 720x. Then again, why would anyone use anything other then Overlay?
Are there any other hidden drawbacks to resizing during playback instead of doing it in the AVS before encoding?