Re: Rounding with #xywh=percent:25,25,50,50

On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:49 , Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:43:31 +0200, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, Jack Jansen wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not thrilled by extending the xywh syntax beyond what we have (pixels and integer percentages), nor by dropping percentages altogether.
>> 
>> Same, integer percentages are not meant to do aspect adaptation, there was an 'aspect' keyword in earlier versions, and it was dropped, but maybe in version 2...
>> Integer percentages are to address simple use cases, like "50%", not for complex things like aspect ration adaptation that may require some specific things (16:9 -> 4:3 is not always a fixed crop)
> 
> What are the use cases for always cropping (say) 50% of the video with a precision that gets worse the bigger the video gets and where using the pixel syntax is not an option?


Why would the precision get worse?
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