"SAR" (Sample Aspect Ratio) is globally preferred over "PAR" (Pixel Aspect Ratio), although the two terms share the same semantics. For example the corresponding AVStream field is called sample_aspect_ratio, and libavfilter has a filter named setsar. Therefore prefer the term "SAR" over "PAR" in the libavformat/utils.c:dump_stream_format() and avcodec_string() output for avoiding confusion.tags/n0.9