Slime <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> As a side note, I find it amusing that the second movie has black bars on 
> the sides *and* the top and bottom, and yet still has the wrong aspect 
> ratio!

  In order for a video to not to fill the entire YouTube player horizontally,
you have to explicitly make the video have a 4:3 resolution. This means that
for a widescreen movie clip you have to add empty space above and below in
order to make the video have a 4:3 resolution. (If you sent a video to
YouTube which had eg. a 16:9 resolution, it would automatically fill the
player window horizontally.)

  This raises the question: Why does someone explicitly convert a widescreen
movie clip to a 4:3 resolution by adding empty space before sending the video
to YouTube? Why go through the trouble in the first place?

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                                                          - Warp

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