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kotrtim
8th January 2006, 17:30
http://www.mir.com/DMG/aspect.html

found this website and got some numbers for SAR

* 525-line (NTSC): 10:11 / 4:3 * 16:9 = 40:33
* 625-line (PAL): 59:54 / 4:3 * 16:9 = 118:81

Well if I have a 720x480 NTSC, if its encoded at full resolution without resizing the sample aspect ratio should be set to 40:33.

But if I have already cropped the 720x480 down to 720x384 without resizing, what is the Sample aspect ratio? I don't think it is still 40:33, isn't it?
Is there a methematical formula to calculate SAR?

DAR is much simpler and easy to understand, but it seem x264, mp4box only support SAR

Thanks..