>  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.)

Yeah, but they added too much black space and squished the movie in the 
process. It's funny that they cared enough to try, but still got it wrong.

>  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?

I guess they may have added the video before YouTube went widescreen.

 - Slime
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