van den bremt rudy wrote: ↑24/05/2024, 1:52
Nick, can you tell me which ratio is the best on ok.ru videos, is it standard, 16.9, or 16.10 the other ratios are bad on VLC media player. I mostly use one of the first 3.
It has nothing to do with OK.RU, the aspect ratio is how the film was originally filmed or else how it was cropped for the TV broadcast or video release it was copied from.
On VLC it should really be set on "default" and only changed when you see that heads are too squashed or too stretched. Most films up until around the mid-1950's were filmed in 4:3 ratio, which was also the aspect of old televisions, so TV broadcasts up until end of the 80's always cropped films to that ratio. In the mid-50's they introduced the widescreen and scope formats, which are most commonly in 16:9 or 2.35:1 ratios, and from the 90's onwards any films that were filmed in these formats have been released or broadcast in their correct original ratios.
Unfortunately I think VLC may save images in whatever the default ratio is even if you change it in your viewer, at least that's what I found in the past. Maybe the only solution to that is to manually increase or decrease the width of your images by stretching them, not cropping, until they look correct.
I mostly use Elmedia Video player, which saves the images in the aspect you are watching them, but I'm not sure if that player is only available to Apple computers.
