Resize, mod16, and AR questions

[audioffile]

Was reading this thread, which got picked up by a google search on another topic.

In above thread morte66 said that x264 deals with non-mod16 source fine and that is better than undercropping, yet I still find this error in the logs:

x264 [warning]: width or height not divisible by 16 (720x360), compression will suffer.

Is it safe to ignore that warning.

In a similar vein morte55 also suggests minimizing resizes (something I'm just now trying to do):

I always want to minimise the amount of resizing. I want a maximum of one resize in the whole rip-to-view chain. If it's a DVD for PC use I encode the original pixels and resize on playback.

Can anyone explain the meaning of "encode the original pixels"? How do I do that? I have some trouble wrapping my head around all the AR stuff.

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Originally Posted by audioffile

Is it safe to ignore that warning.

Ever heard of Google?

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...ivisible+by+16

Can anyone explain the meaning of "encode the original pixels"?

It just means don't do any resizing.

[audioffile]

Originally Posted by neuron2

Ever heard of Google?

Sorry. Thought I had searched that one before. Guess not. My bad.