Resolution Vs. Bitrate

[MrDarcy]

I have another doubt about my DVB-S digital recordings and their conversion with GKnot into Divx.

I may choose to capture from these two channels:

1) 544x576 - Video is VBR from 4 up to 5 Mbit/sec..

2) 720x576 anamorphic - Video is CBR 3.997 Mbit/sec.

What do you prefer ?

The latter has better resolution and gives me larger pictures, almost without need to resize, but 3.997 / (720x576x25) is 0.404 bit/pixel.

The first gives up to (5 / (544x576x25)) = 0.669 bit/pixel, but after resizing the resulting picture is smaller and needs to be zoomed out when played on my TV-set.

Bye !
(I know this question is a little OT in this forum, but here I found very skilled people about pixels and resolutions ;)

[magomago]

Well considering Gknot reccomend staying above .2, .4 is really good IMO and I would go for that because in the future when HDTV is standard or something you already have the filsize in s nice high resolution.

I might be wrong though, so Gknot gods let us hear what you say

[ohliuv]

I'm ignorant on DVB, so my opinion might be completely wrong.

what kind of resolution is 544x... :confused: what is it good for?

my 2cents: you can preserve the anamorphic image in divx5 or RV9, and apply the proper aspect ratio later during playback. I'm a huge fan of this encoding method, provided that the material is high quality and noise-free, and of course, the bitrate is enough for the purpose. However, I never tried to play such video on a TV set. No idea whether it's possible and how you make it work.

[MrDarcy]

magomago:

I'm afraid that here in Europe we won't never see HDTV, but I prefer the higher resolution too.

ohliuv:

544x576 is one of the most used resolutions in DVB-S, at least according to what my Nokia 9600 reports...

I use the Kiss player for playback, but it doesn't recognize the anamorphic format in Divx sources. I should set manually the TV set to "Widescreen".
Anyway, I'll do some tests following your suggestion.

Thanks to both of you.
Bye!