Did you know you can embed a video of nearly any size/aspect ratio on your blog using YouTube?
The YouTube player and app strongly favors videos that are published in the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t upload arbitrary resolutions and embed them nicely.
I wanted to test the limits so I cropped a video clip to a handful of resolutions to see what would happen, then embedded them in a player that matched the video resolution size.
(video samples are from the lyrically immature and musically genius song by Sonny and the Sunsets)
The standard 16×9
The old 4:3 broadcast standard
A ratio like this works great for flashy headers
Keep in mind that as long as you keep the ratio, the video can be any size.
Here’s the same video link embedded quarter of the size:
I could imagine this as sort of a poster/billboard signage with lots of text mized with some images.
Unfortunately if you don’t leave room for the player controls it can look ugly and be hard to play.
Interestingly I couldn’t get anything narrower than 40 pixels to finish processing, although I never got a specific error. So it seems that there may be a hard limit of around 40 pixels for the width, probably to fit the play button. Anyway, not sure why you’d want this ridiculous size but who knows?
