Youtube videos pillarboxing on computer, letterboxing and windowboxing on iPad
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Hello. I’ve got an annoying problem with my embedded videos on my WordPress website and if anyone has any ideas they would be very welcome. Apologies for the length of this post – I just want to make sure I don’t forget anything!
I’ve uploaded 7 movies to YouTube recently, all recorded on my iPad (4:3) and edited using iMovie on my Mac, which left the movies in 16:9 format with black bars at the sides (pillarboxing I think it’s called), which i can live with! They all work fine when I use my computer to view them on YouTube or my own website where they are embedded, or when I use my iPad to view them on the YouTube website.
The problem only occurs when I view these embedded movies on my website using my iPad:
4 of my movies have black bars at the top and bottom of the video (letterboxing I think it’s called?) and 3 of my movies have black bars all around the video (windowboxing?)! I can’t understand why these 3 movies are different to the other 4 because I used the exact same equipment and processes to create, edit, upload and embed all 7 movies to my website!None of the tag codes I could find on YouTube worked to fix this issue (i’ve tried them all dozens of times!). When I try to embed the 3 videos using the embedding code (rather than the website link) I’ve tried changing the width and height, but no matter what I do the windowboxing changes proportionally to the new dimensions i’ve selected.
Again, just to stress, this only happens when I view the embedded videos on my website using my iPad. When I view the same videos on YouTube using my iPad, or when I view the same videos on YouTube or my website using my computer, all the videos go back to having black bars on the sides only (pillarboxing)! So I’m still completely lost as to what’s going on.
Why does viewing my embedded videos on my website using my iPad create such large windowboxing, which doesn’t exist when I the view the same videos everywhere else on my iPad and my computer? how can I correct this?
Any ideas what’s going on here would be greatly appreciated!
Best,De
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