HOW TO: load movies for WIDESCREEN, HIGH QUALITY in DIVX

HQ STEREO LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_8ady7zlag&fmt=18
THESE SETTINGS WILL WORK EVEN IF THE ORIGINAL CLIPS WERE MADE IN 4:3
how to load widescreen highquality stereo sound in imovie quicktime divx

export/share in divx
choose high def, custom options. set screen size to 1280x720, 16:9 framesize, click the box for remove black bars, pull down menu set for bicubic sharp processing, mp3 audio at 160kbps

this looks pretty clear to me, when viewed at the high quality setting.

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[TheRealPCHintsNTips]

if that was supposed to be an intro, you should re-think.

[windham666]

will check the new test you did..

over the past few months, the High Quality link has been giving us the HQ video but NOT the stereo sound - unless you manually add the stupfmt18 thingy. (of course they may have changed that also but it's been that way awhile)

[Prophiscient]

By the way, THIS video also has a "watch in HD" link under it, so... we no longer have to add links with &fmt=18 in the video comments!

[Prophiscient]

I encoded a DivX file with a resulotion of 1280 x 720 pixels with DivX's "High Definition" profile, and now the link under the video says "watch in HD" instead of "watch in high quality". The HD version also has stereo sound.

(windham666, you can see this test video.)

[windham666]

hello. for kicks and giggle i will send you those tests.

[windham666]

yes 100% i have never had a glitch with this setting

[Prophiscient]

It's two days later now, but I just read the YouTube blog too, and what it actually says is that they're "expanding the width of the PAGE to 960 pixels," so that is not the width of the video but the width at of the whole Web page.

The size of the video window is 640 x 360. That means that the 320 pixels wide FLV files and the 480 pixels wide MP4s will always be stretched out by the player and that even the sharpest videos will always look slightly blurred on this Web site.

[Prophiscient]

I guess it's a private video, because I can't see it, but if it is really stretched, you may have selected a wrong pixel aspect ratio (PAR).

960x540 is a 16:9 format, so the display aspect ratio (DAR) is 16:9, but if the pixel aspect ratio is not 1:1 ("square pixels"), the image may still be stretched.

It may also depend on the video codec that you used, because YouTube seems to ignore the PAR of certain formats.

YouTube should add a button to switch between 4:3 and 16:9, just like on my TV!

[windham666]

i just did a test, on a clip with still image, set at 960x540, "extreme high quality" (2nd highest)(1300kbps) 15 fps

it is much clearer (at least on my screen)than the same movie with the specs i describe in this stupid how to video. but it does seem stretched. not sure on that.

[Prophiscient]

Check out this video:

"Star Trek (2009) Trailer [High Quality/HD]"

/watch?v=uiHeviygXw8

This is supposed to be "HD" and it looks quite good, but if you look at the text during the first few seconds, you'll see that it's not really HD at all. Actually the resolution of the MP4 is only 480 x 208. The video itself is not unsharp, but the YouTube player blurs it because the image in your browser is stretched out.