Chewtobacca said:

Harmy said: Also, I wanted to ask, would it be ok to create an x264 MKV with the correct speed (23,97 fps) and PAL resolution

Pupil used to make those, and I've made them myself. They played back fine in two different media players, but there will always be some players that ignore the DAR and display the video incorrectly.

If you do decide to use 1:1 instead, I would squash the video, rather than stretch it. Playback problems are far more likely when you stretch it to 1024 or whatever, in my experience.

No, I'm definitely keeping the resolution as it is. If the AR doesn't work for someone (highly unlikely, as a vast majority of players can be set to show 16:9 if it doesn't do it automatically) they can download the DVD - period.

If I was to squish the picture, I'd have to re-encode yet again. This way it will be the best possible quality: high-bit-rate encode, using the best codec, encoded straight from the source files, in full PAL resolution, at the correct speed. And if everything goes well, I could have the MKV up tomorrow morning...