Vidiot <brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 786x576 is not a digital spec (that I've heard of). For PAL it is 720x576. >> Frame rate is a given, i.e., the NTSC or PAL rates. There are different specs given. I asked google and it came up with the following. Hohan Hanne writes on <http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2002/03-2002/msg00151.html>: | Analog PAL is 702x576 (really? not 704x576?). The usual TV has an | aspect ratio of 4:3, so the picture is somehow scaled to 768x576. So | far, so good. | | "Digital PAL" is broadcast as 720x576 (why 720 and not 702?). However, | as the source is the analog PAL 702x576 picture, the 9 pixel borders | on each side are encoded into the MPEG2 stream. Again, the usual TV | has an aspect ratio of 4:3. When scaling from 720 to 768 i see two So that's probably where the confusion comes from. I didn't know that before and didn't want to loose any information in the picture. But it seems 720x576 should be sufficient. Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 768x576 I've seen not 786 - typo ? Yes, a typo. It should have read 768x576. Berny -- bernhard.marx@xxxxxxx
