dread
19th February 2004, 14:41
I'm planning to buy a hardware MPEG-4 player in the near future... when exactly ? When there will be support for anamorphic mp4's and HE AAC, I guess it can take a while but this is not what I'm asking for.
I'm curious how to create anamorphic screen which will be playable with correct AR by hardware players on 16:9 TV.
To retain anamorphic resolution from DVD and make it correctly playable on 4:3 I'm cropping black bars - for 2.35:1 movies it's something around 720x432 after crop, then encode to xvid with given AR to mp4 and that's all. Everything is fine.
But what about 16:9 TV's ? Should I also crop black bars or maybe leave it alone as it's in original to make it correctly playable on 16:9 TV ?
I'm asking because while watching anamorphic movies on 16:9 TV through my tvout, cropped movies (720x432) plays with bad AR - it's something around 2.80:1, and movies with black bars plays flawlessly (original 720x576).
I'm curious how to create anamorphic screen which will be playable with correct AR by hardware players on 16:9 TV.
To retain anamorphic resolution from DVD and make it correctly playable on 4:3 I'm cropping black bars - for 2.35:1 movies it's something around 720x432 after crop, then encode to xvid with given AR to mp4 and that's all. Everything is fine.
But what about 16:9 TV's ? Should I also crop black bars or maybe leave it alone as it's in original to make it correctly playable on 16:9 TV ?
I'm asking because while watching anamorphic movies on 16:9 TV through my tvout, cropped movies (720x432) plays with bad AR - it's something around 2.80:1, and movies with black bars plays flawlessly (original 720x576).