Youtube now stretches 4:3 videos to 16:9

Why?
How do they keep making it worse?

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OMG all videos are upgraded to widescreen high definition, this is why youtube is the best

I'm fucking pissed right now mostly because I know they will probably not revert it. Fucking userscript to fix this when?

Is that just on their website or with the javashit embedded shit?
I downloaded some old movies with youtube-dl a couple weeks ago, and they look normal in mplayer.

Wheels of Terror FULL MOVIE amazing quality just all about amazing-MPRg0PMOkO8.mp4
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [sdl] 480x360 => 480x360 Planar YV12

'killdozer' (1974 best quality)-1r3y-SRsNPI.mp4
Movie-Aspect is 1.50:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [sdl] 720x480 => 720x480 Planar YV12

The second one has some black bars on the sides, but I think that's part of the original video.

I just opened up some random Samurai Jack videos. Seem fine to me.

Just the player on their website. If you download the videos they're in their original aspect ratio.

Take this video for instance: 4:3 originally, but you wouldn't know since it's displayed as 16:9 on the site. youtube.com/watch?v=qNp3VON-zvg

If it's 960x720 with black edges to the side to upload in 1280x720 it's not going to be stretched, since as far as the player is concerned it's already 16:9.

Holy shit I see it now. Fucking hell, google. Most of the videos still in this resolution are old and therefore low res. So now they're streched and low rest. Fuck. Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea.

I wonder if it does it for high res content.

burn in hell ponyfag

Upon closer inspection I found that the channel was cancer
Speaking of ponies, this video is displayed correctly.
youtube.com/watch?v=LW9WUHq_Z28

What comes to mind is that videos uploaded in anything up to 360p remain displayed in 4:3 aspect ratio (if uploaded as such) and anything above gets stretched.

So what you're saying is that OP is just a faggot you uses a web browser as his video player? What a surprise...

You can make this thread about custom YT players anytime. But I'm still not definitely sure that all 4:3 videos get a different aspect ratio now, only a few examples I've been able to find so far.

Go back to your containment board, horsefucker

"Watch with mpv" addon + appropriate ~/.mpv/config is the way to go and it has the added bonus of being able to play any plain url videos and shitton of various streaming website videos, some of which otherwise require flashplayer.

Just checked my videos, I'm not seeing any stretching here.

Hate to defend Jewgle, but it's not true. You can stretch a video by including this tag in the description yt:stretch=16:9

*in the tags
like in the video you just linked
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tags-for-youtubetm/
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tags-for-youtube/dggphokdgjikekfiakjcpidcclbmkfga

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Weird, last time I complained about Youtube on Holla Forums the meanie squad came along and everybody just told me to use another video website.
Anyways, I don't see any stretching on old videos.

youtube.com/watch?v=HzH60eZTq98

If you mean it stretches new 4:3 videos to 16:9 then it's a non issue, just expand the video size yourself with black bars.

All things must degenerate my friend.

sudo apt-get install mpv

mpv youtube.com/niggerporn

there you go faggot

OP here this guy's right.

Non-retarded version
greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1196-view-youtube-tags/code

Use the 'Open With' addon and set it up for mpv you niggers. Or better yet, kill yourselves.

Fuck off you nigger faggots
>>>/gaschamber/

Just install youtube-dl. You won't have to bother with JavaScript.

peasants.

mps-youtube is better because it lets you browse videos from the terminal and allows you to open them up with your editor of choice. You were jedi mind tricked into believing thumbnails are important anyway.

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Why are you lying, user? Does spreading disinfo bring you joy?


>>>/pone/
>>>/faggot/

Why didn't I think of that.