@vylaern, so you're ignoring the warning that appears to say source doesn't match project, therefore MLt is cropping 8 off and you get your 1920x1080.

But you'll notice the difference in PAR in your ffmpeg output after rendering you post above. h264 is a 1:1 PAR (Pixel aspect ratio) ie square pixels for new LCD's & computer monitors. And you're HDV PAR which is 4:3 non square pixels that get stretched square at playback.

Not sure how HDV can look better than h264, going to depend on encoding & playback settings/device I guess.

> @vylaern, so you're ignoring the warning that appears to say source doesn't match project, therefore MLt is cropping > 8 off and you get your 1920x1080.

Yes. I am ignoring the warning and I am using 1080p 25fps profile, and looks MLT is doing pretty good job and croping those 8.