Hi,
I encoded a 16:9 (widescreen) home video in Pinnacle Studio+ 10.7 as a WMV file.
I can play it back just fine on my PC; however the same file, when uploaded and added to my CPG (Coppermine) website, shows as standard 4:3. This means my kids look really, really thin! :-)
The properties of the files state the ratio is 1.77:1 (i.e. 16:9).
I have WinXP SP2 and Windows Media Player v11.0.5721.5145.
Here it is on my website: http://photos.reeves-hall.net/displayimage.php?album=58&pos=1
Thanks in advance for any help; And Merry Christmas,
~Andrew~
...just to clarify: the problem is when looking at the video in the album (i.e. play it in the thumbnail). If I double-click on the video it enters full-screen mode and the video ratio is set correctly to 16:9.
If you haven't specified the actual width and height of a video, it will default to a 4:3 aspect ratio. After having uploaded a video, edit the file's properties and enter the actual resolution - see http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#edit_vids
That did it. I did search the docs for "16:9" and came up with nothing...
Sure would be nice if (a future version of) Coppermine did the work though (reading the file to know its size)! :-)
Thanks again, and Merry Christmas.
Quote from: AndrewRH on December 24, 2006, 05:22:48 PM
Sure would be nice if (a future version of) Coppermine did the work though (reading the file to know its size)! :-)
Coppermine won't be able to do that, because the ImageLibraries it uses (GD or ImageMagick) can't read videos.
One more follow-up. I 16:9 video that I did recently and saved as WMV showed in its properties that it was 640x480. However, to get it to show in widescreen (16:9) I had to tell Coppermine that its resolution was 853x480.
Equation is: x/480 = 16/9; rearrange to get x = 16/9*480; solve x = 853.
(Change the "480" to whatever the second value is shown by the file properties; eg. if instead of 640x480 it is 1024x768 then use x/768=16/9)
~Andrew~