Timeline for Can I change the aspect ratio of a YouTube video I'm viewing?
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| Oct 30, 2013 at 11:27 | comment | added | Ilari Kajaste | "Cheap operation", sure, for the processing and code. But looking from the UI/UX perspective, allowing scaling (in an embedded, "static") viewer is a very costly operation, precisely because many people don't understand aspect ratios. (I don't consider that a good a excuse, though! But my personal perspective on issues like this doesn't represent the usual UX perspective.) | |
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| Jan 14, 2010 at 23:16 | comment | added | wilhil | Agreed, however these are fully featured video/media players, remember, flash video streaming is a relatively new process and is not that feature rich. I agree that they will probably do this in the future... You can however download videos from YouTube and play it in your choice of program and stretch then.... there just isn't an automated way of doing this. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 23:10 | comment | added | RomanSt | Any reasonable video player (VLC, ZoomPlayer, whatever) lets me stretch the video manually (and in real time) if the originator got it wrong somehow. Stretching is such a cheap operation compared to decoding that there's no excuse for not having it... | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 23:02 | comment | added | wilhil | I can understand it being YouTube's fault if it incorrectly does it, but the fact is that it does understand aspect ratio which is why it gives the black boxes and does not automatically stretch... If I gave you a video that was saved in the correct ratio, how would an automated program know there was a error?... But I do think there should be options or a feature to allow you manually change it online - there must be a few people who know it is wrong and simply do not know how to edit it. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 22:58 | comment | added | RomanSt | I think it's the fault of YouTube as much as the fault of the uploader (for not letting the viewer change it), but thanks anyway for confirming my suspicion that it's impossible. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 22:51 | history | answered | wilhil | CC BY-SA 2.5 |