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Old 30th July 2008, 15:07   #1  |  Link
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x264's SAR or MKV's DAR?

If I encode with x264 to MKV and use a custom SAR is it really stored in the AVC stream or is MKV's DAR used instead?

I did an anamorphic encode via MeGUI which resulted in a weird AR (it's a documented bug of the MeGUI version I'm currently using). I wanted to fix it via MKVToolnix remuxing and setting the correct DAR. Then I thought something weird might happen if the stream has one SAR and the container is specifying a different AR via DAR. But if I extract the rawstream out of the MKV with weird AR and open it via DGAVCIndex I get: SAR: Unspecified. So I wonder if the AR was stored just at the container level.
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in the avc stream.
mkvmerge removes the AR from the stream and places it into the container.
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Does it really remove it? I was in the through that it is kept, so even after doing AVC (w/ --sar) -> MKV/MP4 -> AVC -> MKV/MP4 the correct AR would be still kept since it's present in the AVC stream... Or is my memory going bad. :/
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mkvmerge removes the AR from the stream and places it into the container.
that solves the mystery! thanks.
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or you can use the --engage keep_bitstream_ar_info in mkvmerge

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good to know. thanks buzzqw!
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Does it really remove it? I was in the through that it is kept, so even after doing AVC (w/ --sar) -> MKV/MP4 -> AVC -> MKV/MP4 the correct AR would be still kept since it's present in the AVC stream... Or is my memory going bad. :/
it removes the AR from the bitstream and places it in the container, how many times i have to repeat that?
you can do as buzzqw sugested to change the default behaviour
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it removes the AR from the bitstream and places it in the container, how many times i have to repeat that?
Ugh calm down... I was merely saying something, nothing more... :V
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k, np. sorry. however search before posting. that info is already available in other threads too.
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The removal doesn’t happen for all input types, though, as mosu explained some time ago in the German forum. I’m sure about raw AVC input and I think it was MP4 as well, but not other formats.
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