Video Aspect Ratio

landbeforetimelover · **on:** March 03, 2009, 06:08:11 PM

Hello all. I need a bit of help with FLV files and making them have a 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio as opposed to the 4:3 aspect ratio. This is in regards to the LBT TV eps (as well as other things) and streaming. I've played around a bit with the streaming stuff, but I haven't quite got it down yet. Take a look at this video I have on my website and how it plays. There are black bars along the side and I need them off! I can't stand 'em. Any help?

http://silverlineproductions.webs.com/eragon.htm

NOTE: You must have at least a 1mbps connection to view this video! You might be able to get away with 512k, but I doubt it.

***Also, the video will be really choppy if played in Firefox. I'd use a different browser if you actually want to watch it.***

DarkHououmon · **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:24:57 PM

Are the black lines present before the video was uploaded? Or is it something that occurs after uploading?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:48:06 PM

There is no "uploading" per say. The file is on my server and I have a player that "points" to the location of the file. But if you're asking if when I play the FLV file in a player like VLC does it have the black lines then the answer would be no. It is however in the 4:3 aspect ratio. I have the player code on a widescreen aspect ratio and I was wondering if there was a way I could stretch the video so it would take up the entire black area. Here's the code of the video embedding:

Quote

<center><h2><u>An Eragon and Saphira Tribute</u></h2>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://lbtserver.2myip.net/TVEPS/Resources/javascript.js"></script>
<div id="player">If you can see this text, you need to download Adobe Flash Player to see the video.</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('http://lbtserver.2myip.net/TVEPS/Resources/player.swf','mpl','490','320','9');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('flashvars','&file=http://lbtserver.2myip.net/SilverlineProductions/AnEragonAndSaphiraTribute/EragonMusicVideoHQ.flv&backcolor=FFFFFF&controlbar=over&autostart=false');
so.write('player')
</script>

CODED VIEW:

Code: HTML on
<center><h2><u>An Eragon and Saphira Tribute</u></h2> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://lbtserver.2myip.net/TVEPS/Resources/javascript.js"></script> <div id="player">If you can see this text, you need to download Adobe Flash Player to see the video.</div> <script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject('http://lbtserver.2myip.net/TVEPS/Resources/player.swf','mpl','490','320','9'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addParam('flashvars','&file=http://lbtserver.2myip.net/SilverlineProductions/AnEragonAndSaphiraTribute/EragonMusicVideoHQ.flv&backcolor=FFFFFF&controlbar=over&autostart=false'); so.write('player') </script>

DarkHououmon · **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2009, 07:33:57 PM

To be honest, I'm not sure. The only thing I can think of is trying to change the aspect in what video editting program you gave, if it's able to do that.

I've had this same issue when uploading stuff to YT. The video ends up not being big enough to the ratio they have thing set now on YT so many of my vids have black bars at the sides (they weren't present there before the change).

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2009, 07:37:03 PM

I believe I've found the problem. Yeah sure the video I encode is widescreen, but when I put it through the program that encodes it into an FLV file it puts it back into the 4:3 aspect ratio. <_< What a pain. The program I use doesn't have the option of custom dimensions. All it has are predetermined dimensions....none of which are widescreen. I guess I'd better go find a better program. The world just isn't ready for widescreen yet, but I want it!

The 4:3 aspect ratio sucks!

DarkHououmon · **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2009, 07:49:50 PM

Question:

Is 1.2121 the same as 16:9 or 16:10?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #6 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:43:06 PM

16:9. Why?

DarkHououmon · **Reply #7 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:05:16 PM

I was just curious.

Have you tried this program?

http://www.videotoflash.net/avi-to-flash.htm

I think this program has a 16:9 option available.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #8 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:20:28 PM

Hmmmmm...sounds promising. I'll pirate it and see if it does. I'm not installing trial crap. If it works and I like it THEN I'll buy it.

Thanks.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #9 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:23:16 PM

You're welcome.

Petrie. · **Reply #10 on:** March 05, 2009, 07:59:49 AM

Super© video converter gives an option to encode to flv and 16:9 aspect ratio. I haven't tried it to see if it will actually make a flash file, but it does other file formats well. Its free too.

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html