<br>I am trying to transcode a HD recording at 1080i to 720i, and also to SD.<br><br>When I run mplayer on the original recording I see this:<br><br>Movie-Aspect is 1.82:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>VO: [xv] 1440x1080 => 1964x1080 Planar YV12
<br><br>So I transcoded to 960x720. Now mplayer does this:<br><br>Movie-Aspect is 1.82:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>
VO: [xv] 960x720 => 1310x720 Planar YV12<br><br><br>It seems to me that I am losing quality here when mplayer stretches the image to restore aspect ratio on my 720p file - as I already threw away a load of pixels in the downconversion. I would also imagine that X has to scale it again as my screen is 1280x720 pixels. Am I right here?
<br><br>Is it possible to stretch the 1080 file to the right aspect then scale it down to a 1280x720 file which would need no scaling to playback? Am I right in thinking this would improve things?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Chris
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