YouTube updated with pinch-to-zoom for screens wider than 16:9
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- Spiro
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- 20 Nov 2017
There is no other way of seing 16:9 content on a 18:9 screen with no bars - unless you crop some content from top.and bottom or you extrapolate the original image and lose the original proportion of the figures. 18:9 is an absurd proportion for anything but handling. It is just so uncofortable for reading articles and almost any content in fact. I hobe that some manifactures will have common sense and continue to offer 16:9 smartphones.
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- Anonymous
- IW@
- 18 Nov 2017
Anonymous, 18 Nov 201716:9 phones have giant black bars (on top and below the vid... moreDo you know what you are talking about? Most youtube videos are 16:9! All user videos captured by mobile phones are 16:9! All phone captured photos are 16:9 or 4:3 or 3:2! Reading material is best on 4:3 screen with 16:9 being a reasonable compromise. 18:9 is worthless! It is not the future! It is a fad that deserves to die.
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- Rafe Firmani
- PBb
- 18 Nov 2017
Anonymous, 18 Nov 201716:9 phones have giant black bars (on top and below the vid... moreMost of youtube content is 16:9
Television ratio
Stop lying to your face, dude
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- Anonymous
- 3Ai
- 18 Nov 2017
Kangal, 17 Nov 2017Dude, stop insulting others when you're wrong.
A 18:9 scre... more16:9 phones have giant black bars (on top and below the video) on 21:9 content
Ultra wide phones have much smaller gaps.
So if you are into ultra wide content (movies and eventually most of youtube), *don't buy 16:9 phone, that's a terrible advice and a theowback to the past.
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- AnonD-711468
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- 17 Nov 2017
Kangal, 17 Nov 2017Dude, stop insulting others when you're wrong.
A 18:9 scre... more"A 18:9 screen can show 21:9 videos, but you will have some black borders on the top and bottom sides."
*Exactly* what I'm trying to tell you but you don't listen.
"Fit-to-screen" doesn't mean that you eliminate all black borders. It means eliminating all the left and right black border. Which (if you do) you.don't.lose.any.content.
Gittit now?
You don't lose content with "Fit-to-screen", you lose with "crop", which tries to eliminate all black border which "from my use of the new youtube versions" is *not* what Google does (whatdayaknow , they're not idiots).
Quit it.
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- Kangal
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- 17 Nov 2017
AnonD-711468, 17 Nov 2017You cannot lose any content on 21:9 videos, that's impossib... moreDude, stop insulting others when you're wrong.
A 18:9 screen can show 18:9 videos without losing content AND without borders.
A 18:9 screen can show 21:9 videos, but you will have some black borders on the top and bottom sides.
A 18:9 screen can show 16:9 videos, but you will have some black borders on the left and right sides.
The only way to fill those black borders with content would be the skew the image, and that is not really feasible.
Or the other option is to "zoom in" into the video, but then you essentially cut out some content from one of the axis. So they were correct, you really do "lose content".
Solution?
Get a 16:9 phone.
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- AnonD-711468
- 3Ai
- 17 Nov 2017
AnonD-692822, 17 Nov 2017Stop spreading lies. Unless your viewing those extremely lo... moreYou cannot lose any content on 21:9 videos, that's impossible. Since images are made to fit on the horizontal the only way to lose content is if the image has a smaller aspect ratio than you phone's (i.e. your phone is 18:9 yet the image is 16:9) in any other case you basically *gain* as the horizontal black lines are being eliminated.
Learn some math and stop commenting on articles that you do not comprehend. You cannot lie with math, it's impossible. You cannot call mathematical results as "lies", it's the only reality that the world has ... there's nothing more real than math, the only thing to always be right no matter what.
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- AnonD-510098
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- 17 Nov 2017
Niceee XD Currently using samsungs method but its more effort as you have to tap the screen and then tap the logo.
YouTube have done it a lot better and all you need to do is pinch in on the screen.
Will be using this method from now on
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- AnonD-692822
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- 17 Nov 2017
AnonD-711468, 17 Nov 2017Great conversation. Enjoy the level of it. Anyway what I... moreStop spreading lies. Unless your viewing those extremely low quality videos, video content that do not correspond with the aspect ratio of your device either fits horizontally ( left and right) or vertically (top and bottom). So you cannot zoom in without loosing some content. It even says so on the article.
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- AnonD-692822
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- 17 Nov 2017
Stop spreading lies. Unless your viewing those extremely low quality videos, non compatible content either fits horizontally ( left and right) or vertically (top and bottom). So you cannot zoom in without loosing some content. It even says so on the article.
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- Rafe Firmani
- PBb
- 17 Nov 2017
BBYY, 17 Nov 2017I've sold my Lgg6 mostly becouse of YouTube experience with... moreYou might wanna think to buy back, according to SwaggyP revelation....
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- 17 Nov 2017
I've sold my Lgg6 mostly becouse of YouTube experience with bars..,
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- AnonD-711468
- 6jr
- 17 Nov 2017
Rafe Firmani, 17 Nov 2017What weed are you on?Great conversation. Enjoy the level of it.
Anyway what I was trying to say is that "pinch to zoom" is "fit to screen". Fit-to-screen does not crop any content on 21:9 screens *unless* your phone's aspect ratio is 21:9 or above (which is not).
I was basically calling out that other comment that this feature would indiscriminately crop video. It's both false and possibly a calculated lie... finally Google brings a feature that we needed for at least a year now (since Mi Mix's release)...
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- Rafe Firmani
- PBb
- 17 Nov 2017
AnonD-716404, 17 Nov 2017On super wide 18:9 (2:1) screen regular 16:9 content will l... moreMuchas gracias, Mietas...
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- Rafe Firmani
- PBb
- 17 Nov 2017
AnonD-711468, 17 Nov 2017No there's not as far as 18:9 users are concerned. The v... moreWhat weed are you on?
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- Anonymous
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- 17 Nov 2017
viveksubhash, 17 Nov 2017Hmm did people complain as much when all screens were 16:9 ... moreNo because all content was made for TV.
There was no choice.
Now is different. Content still is made for tv which are 16:9.
No chance they change to 18:9, maybe to 21:9 in the future.
TV dont follow cellphones.
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- SZtadir
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- 17 Nov 2017
Anonymous, 17 Nov 2017Opening apps by a split second faster does not make a phone... moreSeriously!!!! The worst phone of the year? It may not be the best, but saying that it's the worst!!!! You Sony haters are real piece of work, aren't you?
On the topic at hand, cool!!! If all platforms start to adapt to the new aspect ratios then I will be more receptive towards those products.
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- viveksubhash
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- 17 Nov 2017
Hmm did people complain as much when all screens were 16:9 and content was old 3:2? I watched all my dragonball videos with huge black letterboxing.. It was not a problem... You people are too young or have never held a device older than iPhone 5
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- AnonD-711468
- 6jr
- 17 Nov 2017
Anonymous, 17 Nov 2017There's a difference between 21:9 and 18:9. Guess you can't... moreNo there's not as far as 18:9 users are concerned.
The video is already cropped when watching 21:9 content, by fitting the content to the screen youtube is cropping *the black bars*, not content.
Content is cropped on 16:9 videos and 16:9 videos alone (in which case you don't have to pinch-to-zoom)...