

So to get around these problems, YouTube has implemented some options for uploaders that will help you get the most out of the space provided via some quick additions to tags. This will also work for videos that have been stretched improperly or where the aspect ratio is not what YouTube thinks it is. You can basically either crop or stretch to get it to fit into the player how you want. If you have a lot of 4:3 (standard TV-sized) videos and you want to display them without the black bars on the sides or some other way, YouTube gives you some options. This is sort of the opposite of what happens when you watch a widescreen video on a standard television where the bars are top/bottom. That means that your 4:3 videos are smaller in the player window and have black bars on the sides. So here are a few ways that you can change the aspect ratio on your YouTube videos and NOT have to re-upload.īack in late 2008 YouTube switched all players to widescreen. This left many videos in a square peg oblong hole situation (as in the video just doesn’t fit the player window properly).


Then the age of widescreen came and so they changed everything to 16:9.
