dtscd
29th July 2003, 04:28
Hey there,
I've just got an XBox that I'm using with XBMP for a media centre. After playing around DivX'ing a few of my movies up, I see that I can quite easily store most movies with AC3 sound in around 1.3GB or thereabouts. These will either be played back on a 16:9 TV with XBMP on the XBox, or (very occasionally) on a 4:3 TV with the Anamorphic setting enabled in XBMP (Causes vertical compression of an anamorphic source)
My question is: What is the optimal resolution (and aspect ratio) to encode at? I want to minimize as much resizing as possible - I can set the media player software up so that it does no resizing and is a direct 1:1 map onto the pixel resolution of the TV.
My idea is to encode everything anamorphically so that it works well with my 16:9 TV - the encodes I have done at present seem to work fairly well with good quality.
I am ofcourse open to any other ideas other more experienced people may have.
I've just got an XBox that I'm using with XBMP for a media centre. After playing around DivX'ing a few of my movies up, I see that I can quite easily store most movies with AC3 sound in around 1.3GB or thereabouts. These will either be played back on a 16:9 TV with XBMP on the XBox, or (very occasionally) on a 4:3 TV with the Anamorphic setting enabled in XBMP (Causes vertical compression of an anamorphic source)
My question is: What is the optimal resolution (and aspect ratio) to encode at? I want to minimize as much resizing as possible - I can set the media player software up so that it does no resizing and is a direct 1:1 map onto the pixel resolution of the TV.
My idea is to encode everything anamorphically so that it works well with my 16:9 TV - the encodes I have done at present seem to work fairly well with good quality.
I am ofcourse open to any other ideas other more experienced people may have.