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Originally Posted by sanlyn
Apparently you've made up your mind anyway, which leads one to ask, why haven't you already tried it?
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Sorry, if I have appeared to be a know-it-all-while-not-having-the-slightest-idea-of-anything kind of person and appeareed as if I am not accepting you answer or saying it is wrong. I just didn't understand and was wondering.
Regarding testing it myself:
I did and used the three settings I had made a screenshot of. I encoded a small bit with these settings and then watched them on my CRT (the media got fed into a satelite receiver with PVR/mediaplayer). The result was, that I get
1280x720 = the Handbrake encode was same as source that was recorded on my PVR
960x720 = fitting the 4:3 of course, but small parts arround the picture are hidden, obviously due to being in the overscan area.
968x716 (as sugguested by Handbrake itself) = see 960x720
BUT there is a difference though between the last two. Of course there is a different amount of picture content lost in the overscan area, but the difference is small.
I have an idea now. I will try to find the numbers that I need to move the picture content at the borders out of the overscan area. I know that is not how CRT was meant to be, but I'd like to see the whole picture content, even, if it wasn't even concidred action save by the director. Th eproblem will be to make sure that the numbers devide by 4:3 and fit rectangular or square picels. I have yet to find out, if the mediaplayer of the PVR does interpolate/scale the picture anyway, so that I don't have to differentiate between PC-monitor, 16:9 LCD-TV and 4:3 CRT.
Other thoughts.
The TV channel that sent the content is available in SD and HD. I realized in the past that they send a picture without bookends on SD (so the 16:9 TV adds them, the 4:3 will have fullfillingimage). ON HD they send bookends added to the content (which is an old 4:3 movie) and it will appear as 16:9 on the 16:9 TV, on the 4:3 TV you will have a black frame arround he picture (i.e. letterboxes AND bookends, as if the picture is made smaller and put into the center).
Unfortunately I didn't think about that the day I recorded it. I recorded the HD stream (I should have also recorded the SD stream on the rerun in the night, to have a comparison).
I understand that it probably is right, what you say about Handbrake. Resizing was terrible in version 0.9.4, however I think they changed something in the latest version 0.10.something, still not intuitive to a dumb person like me. However, I understand, the whole attempt by me will not be successful as long as I don't count in all factors such as telecining and what you mentioned.
I will maybe just opt for the easiest option "keep aspect ration, anamorphic none" and output same as source. Since probably there is no way of ever sorting this out correctly with my limited cerebral capabilities. I am bad at maths, so I shouldn't think about the whole issue anyway and just eat what Handbrake does.
PS: forgive my bad spelling, I am actually very good at linguistic stuff, but its late and my head aches.