On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:57:10PM +0200, Krzysztof Duchnowski wrote: > On 21.04.2010 23:32, Josef Wolf wrote: > > > So to avoid scaling (I assume scaling reduces quality) and keep multiples > > of 16, I crop to 752x560. But this results in bad aspect ratio. > > > > The next resolution with proper aspect and both axes multiples of 16 would > > be 704x528. But that would mean to throw away about 16% of the pixels. I'd > > rather not throw away _that_ much. > > > > Any suggestions? > > You have 2 options: > 1) stay with AVI and add black border Umm... > 2) remux from AVI to MKV or MP4 and add aspect info to the file (can be > done easily during muxing) Seems to be the better option. But I have more questions: - So avi can't store arbitrary aspect? - Didn't I already created mpeg4? Or is MP4 something different? - Do I really need an additional pass for this? Can't I do this in the encoding pass?