Please do adjust your set

November 26, 2008 in new media, video, web | 3 comments

YouTube now supports widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio video display on their site. Which is great. [example]

The new aspect ratio can be used in embedded video as well. By changing the width and height parameters in the embed code in the example below I was able to use the full width available to me in this blog column. This example is 500 x 300 pixels. (I’m also forcing high quality video playback)

[pimp for BCScene]

  1. jaywest on November 26, 2008 at 8:08

    Very nice. It looks like you are specifying a poster frame too. Can you show us how you do that?

  2. maurizio on November 26, 2008 at 8:33

    An uploaded video’s poster frame is still not recognized by YouTube. YouTube gives you three randomly picked frames to choose from. The one in this example was the only one that was even close to useable.

  3. Martin on November 26, 2008 at 16:11

    “Format 22″ is the new “Format 18″