Aspect Ratio Question

[kakomu]

When looking at a DVD resolution for NTSC, I know that the video is encoded at 720x480. When playing this DVD in a Soft player, it expands the resolution to 720x540 if it's 4:3 and it expands the res to 960x540 (852x480 if you're using WMP with certain video codecs).

However, I was wondering if someone could give me the Soft Player resolutions for PAL 4:3 and anamorphic widescreen resolutions. And is 720x576 the resolution it's viewed at, or is it unstretched like with NTSC video?

[mpucoder]

Your computer is using square pixels, therefore the pixel ratio is the same as the aspect ratio, regardless of NTSC or PAL. So 720x540 might be used for 4:3, but it would mean shrinking the PAL picture. More likely would be 768x576.