Aspect Ratio
Obviously most monitors in use today have a 16/9 aspect ratio. On the other hand most of the older videos, including the best full feature films ever made, are recorded in a 4/3 aspect ratio. This makes watching them in full screen unpleasant (large black margins left and right).
At Xhamster, they only convert the format to flv leaving the aspect ratio of the original upload. If the uploaded videos were preconverted to a 16/9 flv format, they would make a nicer viewing on our local monitors, and may be reduce publishing time at Xhamster because they need minimum or no processing.
Conversion tools are abundant. My favorite is a freeware called ‘Freemake video converter'. It is available at download sites like http://www.filehippo.com/ or its own homepage at http://freemake.com/. It is not heavy weight and rich in features (almost all the features in the huge authoring programs like Nero pro are available for free).
Please note that I'm not advertising for freemake. I would appreciate it if you try it and comment on my profile page.
Have fun!
Keep the videos coming and keep everybody cumming!
At Xhamster, they only convert the format to flv leaving the aspect ratio of the original upload. If the uploaded videos were preconverted to a 16/9 flv format, they would make a nicer viewing on our local monitors, and may be reduce publishing time at Xhamster because they need minimum or no processing.
Conversion tools are abundant. My favorite is a freeware called ‘Freemake video converter'. It is available at download sites like http://www.filehippo.com/ or its own homepage at http://freemake.com/. It is not heavy weight and rich in features (almost all the features in the huge authoring programs like Nero pro are available for free).
Please note that I'm not advertising for freemake. I would appreciate it if you try it and comment on my profile page.
Have fun!
Keep the videos coming and keep everybody cumming!
11 years ago