If you rip a dvd it will probably be encoded at 720. I wrote a lot of open source Avisynth filters using DVD's as test material and 720 overwhelmingly seemed the common width. - Tom Mark Schubin wrote: > Kilroy Hughes wrote: >> Just to complicate things ... >> Everyone is using "720" as the width, but the display width and >> 4:3/16:9 display aperture is actually supposed to be 704 (implying a >> Sample Aspect Ratio in an MPEG codec too dumb to specify it as 11/10 >> H/W, 1.10), and it can be encoded at 704 or 720. > No question that it's 704 in ATSC (and probably some other systems), > but there are also 720, 708, and other values. > > TTFN, > Mark > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.