N-gated Hacker NewsDec 31
👾 BREAKING NEWS: Square pixels are not actually square! 🚨 Hold onto your aspect ratios, folks, because it turns out embedding videos on web pages is rocket science! 🎥 Spoiler alert: the solution is not to measure your pixels with a ruler. 📏🤣
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/square-pixels/ #breakingnews #aspectratios #squarepixels #videocomplexity #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
When square pixels aren’t square

When you want to get the dimensions of a video file, you probably want the display aspect ratio. Using the dimensions of a stored frame may result in a stretched or squashed video.