Timeline for How to treat video material with non-square pixels
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 10:54 | vote | accept | stack_horst | ||
| Feb 23, 2015 at 8:52 | comment | added | user7952 | I would use an mp4 container with h.264 high profile for the video stream and aac for the audio stream(s). I've been using that for several years, and I have yet to discover a player (software or hardware) that doesn't handle it. In most encoders you define the display aspect ratio and the encoder calculates the pixel aspect ratio. | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 8:39 | comment | added | stack_horst | So by using mp4 or mkv there would be no "risk of misinterpretation" of the material by the video player (i.e. not accounting for the aspect ratio) because the pixel aspect ratio is a container (codec?) thing? (+I am mostly on Linux and if need be on Windows) | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 21:59 | history | answered | user7952 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |