[vdr] Re: vdr2divx --- wrong output-format at 480x576

[ma.hoff@t-online.de (Martin Hoffmann)]

> Am i doing something wrong or is it not yet implanted to recognice the
> 480x576 an scale it?

no rescaling implemented for 4:3 source !
The reason is simple:
vdr2divx was mainly written for simple automatic conversion of VDR recording 
with the intention to playback the resulting AVI (smaller in size :-) through 
the DVBs card for TV playback !
However 480x576 is a good resolution for DVBs playback, although it's not a 
proper AVI resolution since AVI has NO aspect ratio and always has square 
pixels !
So, to be AVI compliant vdr2divx should scale to 768x576 (4:3) or to 480x360 
(4:3, too). But since upscaling is no good idea when it comes to mpeg 
compression, only 480x360 would be a choice ! But this means losing much 
details etc ...

So vdr2divx DOES NOT rescale 4:3 source files !

Maybe i'll add this as an configurable option later ... But at the moment i'm 
busy working on vdr2divx encoding with xvid interlaced ...

But you can simply add -vop scale=480:360 to the mencoder options to force 
the scaling !
Maybe one day we will have another A/V File format beside AVI, that can be 
played by nearly every player AND has an aspect ratio for the video ! Then 
this never would have been a problem ;-)

Martin