It was mostly because of people sending in 1:1 videos, like a resolution of 848x480, which is totally valid and actually demonstrated that the creator knew what they were doing. The ones that say something along the lines of "changed aspect ratio" were usually because the video was a 720x480 mpeg, either with a 4:3 flag, or worse, a 1:1 flag when the source was clearly 16:9. The flag is actually irrelevant for live presentation since we're using MCI to broadcast our videos and our source file is mapped 1:1 to the TV, regardless of the flag (meaning 1 PC pixel occupies the total space of 1 television pixel). Directshow supports aspect flags, but until I can convince everyone in the world to stop using tmpegenc/tmpeg xpress, moving to dshow isn't an option unless I recompress everything anyways >.> The other thing that happens is that people send in 720x480 avis to max out the quality, but avi is a container that does not support an aspect ratio flag (at the container-level at least). I then have to try all aspects to see which one looks right.Angelyco wrote:I see a lot of aspect ratio changes to 16:9 but the rules say this:
Maybe that's why you had to fix so many? Unless you received a bunch of widescreen videos that were squished to 720x480 instead of letterboxing?Videos flagged as 16:9 will be screened improperly.
Code, you owe me a medal now
So all videos were re-encoded to 704:480? (and possibly re-letterboxed?).
