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SSVC great converter.
"Please note : Cropping the black bars doesn’t really save a lot of disk space. It will however, as correctly noted by Thomas, have a potential negative side effect when it comes to playback. The cropped video (removing the black bars) will make it harder for devices to determine what the correct aspect ratio and/or resolutions are and as a result in possibly distorted playback."
(Source) https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/handbrake-optimizing-video-encoding-h264/
That is why some converters and their clever makers often do not incorporate crop option. I, myself prefer not to crop black bars, but in any case your device will add them back in if you choose to remove. The argument to remove is because of the wasted bits using a square pixel format like H264 to encode. Some Forum members like the very knowledgeable Cornucopia say leave them and I agree as black bars do not actually waste encoding bits. |
