On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Jägenstedt wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:39 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: >>> >> >> <video src="circle.mpg" width="400" height="400"> <!-- circle --> >> <video src="circle.mpg" width="400" height="300"> <!-- pillarbox --> > > This is effectively how YouTube behaves now with their recent change to a > widescreen player. It would look terrible if 4:3 videos were stretched to > fill the 16:9 viewport, instead of just using black bars on the side. Even > before when they were still using a 4:3 player, widescreen videos were > rendered as letterbox.
Not all video players behave like the YouTube one though. Many stretch with the width/height attributes. I would support an explicit keepaspectratio attribute, which turns the width/height from a video width/height to a viewport. In fact, such an attribute would be awesome for images, too. It could be a CSS attribute or an explicit video element attribute - I am not fussed. Regards, Silvia.
