Video Compression Question

Hi
I know there are some digital video gurus on here - maybe one of you can help me out.
I have a client asking for a film to be compressed to 720x576 with anamorphic pixels.
Does H264 codec support anamorphic pixels? Or would I have to compress it as DV-PAL?
Thanks

The source is h264 at 1920 x 1080
The client is some sort of web TV thing - not really sure - and he's worried that some older equipment can't handle square pixels.
I don't want to use DV-PAL because of the file size and quality issues.
Is it even possible to have anamorphic pixels in h264?

Like TooTallTim says, H.264 is just a codec, you can make it any size you want.

Don't get too tired up with the idea of 'anamorphic pixels' - it's only a conceit, there are no such things as non-square pixels - all pixels are square in a file, but the files we call 'anamorphic' get stretched out at the point of play.

So:

720 x 576 gets stretched out (at the point of play) to 768 x 576 for 4:3 signals.

720 x 576 gets stretched out (at the point of play) to 1024 x 576 for 16:9 signals.

So in this respect every codec supports anamorphic pixels (as it's only an idea expressed when played).

Hope that makes sense.

H.264 is very good considering the size (massively better than DV-PAL which is very old now) - x264Encoder is even better than H.264.