Recording mpg's

Following up on this... I have an off-the-list-question about MPEG 2.

Has anyone taken classes in Video Production anywhere?

I'm making a commercial for a client and they need the final project encoded
in MPEG2.

First, I am having trouble finding out what resolution American TVs use.
I've read that we use PAL, and I've read that we use NTSC standards, but
then also, I've seen resolutions of 720 x 450 and I've seen them at
500-something by something... I used NTSC 720 x 450 when I started, I'm now
done with it, but when I go to encode it as MPEG-2 it says that the
resolution needs to be in increments of 8... that would make it 720 x
456....

Can anyone help?

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Recording mpg's


| Using this link as a reference, and the docs, I was able to compile
| and install mplayer in under 2 hours. It is clearly the best movie
| player I have ever seen for Linux.
|
| SuSE uses the "required" gcc version, so it compiled OK. The hardest
| part was realizing that I didn't have gtk-devel installed :)
|
| mencoder is another issue . . .
|
| Thanks for the pointer.
|
| George
|
|
| KevinO wrote:
| >
| > George Toft wrote:
| > > I looked at mplayer briefly, and discovered it was going to be
| > > a paing in the butt to get working under SuSE. I guess that will
| > > be my next project, when I get lots of spare time.
| >
| > I found this information helpful :
| >
| > http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1214.mplayer.html
| >
| > I used gcc ver. 2.96 , IIRC .
| > --
| > Kevin O'Connor
| >
| > "People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun
...
| >
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Inc.
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