comparison DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml @ 25280:31a93c970bdd

three little corrections...

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half the difference of the old and the new height so that the resulting
video is taken from the center of the frame. And because of the way DVD
video is sampled, make sure the offset is an even number. (In fact, as a
rule, never use odd values for any parameter when you are cropping and
scaling video.) If you are not comfortable throwing a few extra pixels
away, you might prefer instead to scale the video instead. We will look
at this in our example below.
You can actually let the <option>cropdetect</option> filter do all of the
above for you, as it has an optional <option>round</option> parameter that
is equal to 16 by default.
</para>

movie in time, plus a small amount of "overhead" (see the section on
<link linkend="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-muxing-avi-limitations">the AVI container</link>
for instance).
Other parameters such as scaling, cropping, etc. will
<emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> alter the file size unless you
change the bitrate as well!.
</para>

<para>
Bitrate does <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> scale proportionally
to resolution.

<listitem><para>
  ARa is the displayed aspect ratio, which usually is 4/3 or 16/9,
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  PRdvd is the pixel ratio of the DVD which is equal to 1.25=(720/576) for PAL
  DVDs and 1.5=(720/480) for NTSC DVDs,
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<para>

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half the difference of the old and the new height so that the resulting
video is taken from the center of the frame. And because of the way DVD
video is sampled, make sure the offset is an even number. (In fact, as a
rule, never use odd values for any parameter when you are cropping and
scaling video.) If you are not comfortable throwing a few extra pixels
away, you might prefer to scale the video instead. We will look
at this in our example below.
You can actually let the <option>cropdetect</option> filter do all of the
above for you, as it has an optional <option>round</option> parameter that
is equal to 16 by default.
</para>

movie in time, plus a small amount of "overhead" (see the section on
<link linkend="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-muxing-avi-limitations">the AVI container</link>
for instance).
Other parameters such as scaling, cropping, etc. will
<emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> alter the file size unless you
change the bitrate as well!
</para>

<para>
Bitrate does <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> scale proportionally
to resolution.

<listitem><para>
  ARa is the displayed aspect ratio, which usually is 4/3 or 16/9,
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  PRdvd is the pixel ratio of the DVD which is equal to 1.25=(720/576) for PAL
  DVDs and 1.5=(720/480) for NTSC DVDs.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<para>