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Zengeku

fucked up videos
« on: May 10, 2010, 07:58:09 PM »
Hi. It seems i have uploaded a video thats kind of messed up. When its full screen, the bottom and top of the screen gets cut off.

Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DAApMrtEiU

Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong here?
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Gpop

Re: fucked up videos
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2010, 09:31:22 PM »
Ah, I remember this happening to one of Furienfy's videos I believe. I think it has something to do with YT's new format, which is proving to be very glitchy already.
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Barrakketh

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Re: fucked up videos
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2010, 09:53:06 PM »
There's more that's messed up than that.  It doesn't even fill the player correctly at normal size.

FWIW, the 720p version plays back fine locally on my machine.

EDIT:  A related problem is being looked into, but supposedly bug fixes only roll out on Wednesday unless something is seriously broken.
« Last Edit: May 10, 2010, 10:04:15 PM by Barrakketh »
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Zengeku

Re: fucked up videos
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 08:13:52 AM »
Quote from: Barrakketh on May 10, 2010, 09:53:06 PM
There's more that's messed up than that.  It doesn't even fill the player correctly at normal size.

FWIW, the 720p version plays back fine locally on my machine.

EDIT:  A related problem is being looked into, but supposedly bug fixes only roll out on Wednesday unless something is seriously broken.

So its something that will be fixed one of these days?
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Barrakketh

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Re: fucked up videos
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2010, 06:10:07 PM »
Quote from: Zengeku the Viking on May 11, 2010, 08:13:52 AM
So its something that will be fixed one of these days?
Yep.  Whether or not it will require another upload will be a mystery.  While researching your problem I learned that there are some interesting uses for tags on Youtube.

Out of curiosity, could you try editing that video's tags and add the "yt:crop=16:9" tag?  See if that changes anything.  If not, try removing that one and add "yt:stretch=16:9".  Are either of those an improvement?
« Last Edit: May 11, 2010, 06:17:38 PM by Barrakketh »
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Zengeku

Re: fucked up videos
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 09:49:15 PM »
The crop=16:9 tag fixed the problem. I'll write both down if i should ever run into problems like this again.

Thanks a lot dude. You are making me a happy viking. :)
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Barrakketh

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Re: fucked up videos
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2010, 10:15:27 PM »
Quote from: Zengeku the Viking on May 11, 2010, 09:49:15 PM
The crop=16:9 tag fixed the problem. I'll write both down if i should ever run into problems like this again.

Thanks a lot dude. You are making me a happy viking. :)
Since I don't know how the player actually works, you might need to check it after a Wednesday or two just in case a fix breaks that workaround, but I don't think it will cause an issue.

FYI, there's also a "yt:quality=high" to make the player default to high quality, but I dunno if there's a hidden "hd" option that they don't list in their help section (I would assume it would be "yt:quality=hd" if it exists).  Those came from here.
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Zengeku

Re: fucked up videos
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2010, 10:23:40 PM »
I'll go confirm if everything is okay Wednesday.
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