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Niz
12-15-2008, 06:24 AM
My concern is whether the iPhone can adjust to wrongly encoded videos for example:

The video has been captured in 16:9 BUT encoded to 4:3 SO when viewed on a 4:3 monitor there are no bars above and below but the picture is squashed so everyone is thin.

The same video if viewed on a 16:9 screen with appear just like as if on a 4:3 but since the monitor is 16:9 there will be bars on the left and right BUT say if i was using VLC media player on a PC connected to this 16:9 monitor i could set the video to the correct 16:9 and the video would resize to 16:9 and fill the screen and the vidoe would playback in the original 16:9.

Can the iPod Touch do this also? So i play this 16:9 but encoded 4:3 (for iPhone obviously) and on the screen i see a squashed 4:3 image, is there an option to cycle through ALL the different options e.g. 16:9, 16:10, 2.21:1, etc

I know that you can crop the video to view fullscreen and thats it what about what ive said? thanks for the help!

JMG
12-16-2008, 04:39 AM
My concern is whether the iPhone can adjust to wrongly encoded videos for example:

The video has been captured in 16:9 BUT encoded to 4:3 SO when viewed on a 4:3 monitor there are no bars above and below but the picture is squashed so everyone is thin.

The same video if viewed on a 16:9 screen with appear just like as if on a 4:3 but since the monitor is 16:9 there will be bars on the left and right BUT say if i was using VLC media player on a PC connected to this 16:9 monitor i could set the video to the correct 16:9 and the video would resize to 16:9 and fill the screen and the vidoe would playback in the original 16:9.

Can the iPod Touch do this also? So i play this 16:9 but encoded 4:3 (for iPhone obviously) and on the screen i see a squashed 4:3 image, is there an option to cycle through ALL the different options e.g. 16:9, 16:10, 2.21:1, etc

I know that you can crop the video to view fullscreen and thats it what about what ive said? thanks for the help!

No there is no way to change the aspect. Just recode it with mpeg streamclip and you're good to go. Mpeg Streamclip allows you to preview so you can try out different aspects. Just keep in mind everytime you encode/recode a movie you lose quality.

Niz
12-24-2008, 08:48 AM
yep thanks just i downloaded some encoded by someone else, thanks for the reply.