Changing height of the video

[Gio21stri]

I have video with broken aspect ratio (height is broken- faces looks too long). How to fix that? I tried "crop" filter - but its jtt cut frame from top and bottom

here's original video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E7kXNA_gKfX9U0D5Km872iqPb4twjvgW/view?usp=sharing

[ProWo]

Looks fine to me. Play it with VLC Player and change the aspect ratio for viewing other AR's.

[DB83]

+1


The video is 4:3 AR. If you play it at another AR it would look odd.

[butterw]

+2
AR (4/3) doesn't seem incorrect to me.
DAR correction can be done at container level without reencoding.

[jagabo]

The video has a 4:3 frame size and displays as 4:3. But I think the OP is right, Amy Poehler's face is too narrow (compare with her other appearances on SNL at youtube.com). Stretching the video to 16:9 is obviously too wide though. I think somewhere around 600x384 gives the right aspect ratio. So setting the DAR flag to about 1.56 should work.

[Budman1]

Quick ffmpeg test shows the square window ( assuming it was meant to be square) beside her head measure 208x220 with a Pixel ruler. That is an error of 0.945. Doing the math shows 720x454 makes the square exactly square. That makes aspect 720/454 =1.586

Using ffmpeg below display correctly and does not re-encode:

ffmpeg -i "D:\Replay Media Catcher\videoplayback.mp4" -aspect 720:454 -c copy output.mp4

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