Detecting anamorphic h.264?

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Jul. 21, 2009Mark Edwards

As far as I can tell, JW Player is not able to detect and properly display anamorphic h.264 video.

I have video encoded as 640x480 anamorphic 16:9 h.264 (.mp4), and JW plays it as if it is 4:3. Sure, I can force it to stretch arbitrarily, but that doesn't really work well as it fails in fullscreen and it requires that the page's code knows the aspect ratio of the video, which it may not.

Is this a bug? Is this not possible to do? Flowplayer also has this issue, from what I can tell.

Thanks.

Oct. 24, 2009Joe

I'm having the same issue. Very disappointing.

Oct. 26, 2009Zachary Ozer

The player currently uses a 4:3 aspect ratio by default, as this is the format of most content.

There is a solution available, however. See http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Bug-Reports/13766/aspect-ratio-not-detected

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