johndyer/mediaelement — Issue #288: Videos shown with incorrect aspect ratio by flashmediaelement.swf
Author: Zacch
Created: 2011-11-03 08:13:21+00:00
State: open

It seems that some files always show with an aspect ratio of about 4:3 in the Flash player (flashmediaelement.swf).

Example: http://piro.se/bugreport/test.html

This shows the "Echo here we are" file from the distribution at the top, and below it is a converted file which shows up in the wrong aspect ratio.

Original file: http://piro.se/bugreport/echo-hereweare.mp4
Converted file: http://piro.se/bugreport/echo-converted.mp4

The two video files use the same codecs (h.264 and AAC) and they have the same aspect ratio (if you allow for rounding errors anyway).

I made the conversion in the free Miro Video Converter 2.6 (http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/) using the "iPod Nano" setting.