Answers.Body: <p>I tried both and the empirical result is that the 360p video looks <em>much</em> better than the 448p. Even on my full HD computer screen played in VLC but on the TV screen it was definitely a lot better.
  So in my experience the proportionate imaging is more important than the theoretical resolution.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Assuming the player can rescale the video to Full HD fast enough, I would output to the highest resolution acceptable. </p>
  
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Body: <p>I need to transcode 720p AVC videos to Xvid because they need to be played on a Samsung DVD player. The player can handle maximum 448 pixel high videos and automatically scales the picture up to 1080p for the full HD TV. Now the question is, should I downscale to 448p for the highest theoretical resolution or 360p because it's exactly 1/4 of the source's and 1/9 of the TV's resolution?</p>
  
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Title: Biggest possible resolution or go for common denominator?
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ThreadText: # Biggest possible resolution or go for common denominator?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-11-20)
  
  I need to transcode 720p AVC videos to Xvid because they need to be played on a Samsung DVD player. The player can handle maximum 448 pixel high videos and automatically scales the picture up to 1080p for the full HD TV. Now the question is, should I downscale to 448p for the highest theoretical resolution or 360p because it's exactly 1/4 of the source's and 1/9 of the TV's resolution?
  
  **Tags:** ffmpeg, television
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2016-11-28. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  I tried both and the empirical result is that the 360p video looks *much* better than the 448p. Even on my full HD computer screen played in VLC but on the TV screen it was definitely a lot better.
  So in my experience the proportionate imaging is more important than the theoretical resolution.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-11-21. Score: 0
  
  Assuming the player can rescale the video to Full HD fast enough, I would output to the highest resolution acceptable.
  
  
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