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Old 18th October 2009, 23:53   #6  |  Link
Dark Shikari
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You should always crop black bars if possible. They don't take up much space, but there's no reason to keep them (it wastes encoding and decoding time) and it slightly lowers the efficiency of motion compensation. It's worse if the black bars don't end on mod16 boundaries.
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