Choosing the Optimal Video Resolution

[Weyland]

Some people want to win the World Series. Others want to become President of the United States. I want to be the guy who rid the world of non-square pixel video.

http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s%253D1021%2526a%253D16362,00.asp

 

Hittade precis detta guldkorn för alla er som pysslar med video, videofiler eller rörligt media överhuvudtaget.

 

Testing two MPEG-1 encoders back in 1996, using standard analog BetaSP footage, I noticed something funny--playing the two videos back on a computer monitor, they looked like before and after shots for a diet program. One made me look fat. The other made me look skinny (guess which got Editor's Choice?).

 

"NTSC is the National Television Standards Committee (or, Never the Same Color Twice as the tired joke goes)..

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/Weyland - "Space is the place fooor meeee to beee"

 

2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.

 

[inlägget ändrat 2001-10-14 16:03:20 av Weyland]

[Weyland]

Kan juh tillägga att det faktiskt finns lite stuff för er QT-fans oxå

 

Media Player, now up to version 7.0, still ignores the aspect ratio instructions in the file header and displays the file at its native resolution, as does RealNetwork's RealPlayer 8.0. In fact, the only player that implements the aspect ratio instructions was Apple's QuickTime Player 5.0.