[FFmpeg-user] Glossary: DAR, PAR, and SAR

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Thu Oct 1 11:01:56 EEST 2020


Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) (12020-09-30):
> Revision: Shorter sentences, better consistency, no extra 'lesson' about how to minimize ratios.\
> Formatted for email, plain text.

What is you purpose in writing this?

If you intend to make a generic erudite glossary for all video terms,
then the mailing-list for using FFmpeg is not the place to do it.

If you intend to make a glossary useful for FFmpeg users, then get rid
of all the useless lint about obsolescent standards (H.262? seriously?)
and irrelevant terms. In particular:

> PAR (picture aspect ratio [1]) [noun]: 1, The horizontal-to-vertical
>   size [3] ratio (H:V, e.g. 5:4, 3:2) for pictures. PAR is

get rid of this one altogether, because nothing in FFmpeg use it, and
rightly, because nobody should use it.

-- 
  Nicolas George
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