Stretched Youtube Videos (yt:stretch=16:9)

Why I don't like the ability to stretch native 4:3 videos to 16:9 on youtube.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• yt:stretch=16:9
• Stretched
• Youtube
• video
• aspect
• ratio
• 16:9
• 4:3
• stretch
• rant
• complaint

[KnucklesARouge]

*Looks at tags for your video*

...xD...

[MistaX8]

@KnucklesARouge

Not sure what you are getting at with this comment. If you are commenting on the fact that I have the yt:stretch tag in there then it means nothing. I uploaded the video natively in widescreen so that tag has no effect on the video. I also am aware of the use of the tag when an anamorphic widescreen video doesn't fill the whole box and gets squashed for some reason.

If your comment isn't about that tag being in there, then I still have no idea what you are getting at.

[hobocamptheater]

the main purpose for the tag was to help people who have what's called anamorphic video, where it takes 16:9 video and squishes it to 4:3 people would then have to stretch it so that it looks right, but you are right that people are taking native (non anamorphic) video and stretching it, causing distortion instead of fixing getting rid of it.

[MistaX8]

@hobocamptheater

Yeah, I'm aware of it's uses. I believe I have 2 or 3 videos where I had some kind of processing issue and needed to use it to get the aspect ratio correct.

It was just annoying though, that at the time I posted this video (which was roughly 2 years ago), I saw so many stretched videos, and the 4:3 ones that were untouched had comments in them saying, "Hey, you can make your video widescreen with yt:stretch=16:9!" and the video creators were listening to them.

[bigge006]

i always rendered with wrong settings before(1080x720) and it worked fine then so i does have some good uses...

[MistaX8]

@bigge006

I never said it didn't have it's uses. But when it first came out, everyone and their mother was stretching out their 4:3 videos with that tag.

[check86]

Maybe youtube should add a button to videos so that you can pick the aspect ratio of the clip you're watching if you don't agree with the authors choice.

[MattiKoopa]

100% agree. I also hate it when people stretch out old 4:3 TV-shows on their widescreen TV.

[fuelban]

I never even knew this was possible, I am too old for this modern crap, heck I still cant program the recorder, and don't get me started on cell phones !!!.

interesting video for an old guy...LOL

Thom in Scotland.

[aaronfromhastings]

It's a plot to make Europeans look fatter so Americans don't think we are all undernourished.

[BannedFromThisSite]

I tend to do this when I need to remove windowboxing. It drastically lowers the quality though. It's useful for situations where saving in 1280x720 would make the video look generally worse, even when cropped to 16:9.

[RandomBlockFilms]

@arrieta96 THANK YOU!! hopefully they dont change this but they probably will.

[arrieta96]

@RandomBlockFilms its not permanent and it might be removed, but if you type youtube(dot)com/home you'll have the old layout again, it'll change back if you click back to the home page by clicking the youtube button. I just bookmarked the address with the added /home for convenience. IMO the layout is fine if they give us the ability to delete watched videos again.

[RandomBlockFilms]

i wish there was a tag to bring back the old youtube layout :(

[blackturtleshow]

Interesting! It's hard to say if it's worse to have the black bars on either side of the video or to have this stretching effect. Seems like a twelve of one and a dozen of the other to me!

[mileses]

its becoming a sort of craze in skateboarding videos . pisses me off