on iPad Mini 6, is it possible to crop/zoom YouTube video so it fills up the whole screen?(like on iPhones)
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iPad mini on iPad Mini 6, is it possible to crop/zoom YouTube video so it fills up the whole screen?(like on iPhones)
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If it not using fill screen you can use two finger to zoom video in a smaller window in Safari. But not in the YouTube App whether reduced window size, fill screen either portrait, or landscape.
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HobeSoundDarryl
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On iPad Mini 6, the youtube app offers a button to spread the video to fill the screen. If the aspect ratio is wider than the the screen, black bars top & bottom fill the empty space so you can see the whole view as intended.
If you mean fill the whole screen by zooming in and only showing part of the video (basically cropping off image in the left & right to match the available screen space of the Mini) so that there are no black bars, I could not make it do that by the usual methods.
If you mean fill the whole screen by zooming in and only showing part of the video (basically cropping off image in the left & right to match the available screen space of the Mini) so that there are no black bars, I could not make it do that by the usual methods.
I'm just confused to why the YouTube app on iPhones allow this by cropping off top and bottom.... butt the YouTube app on iPad can't allow filling the screen completely by cropping left and right.... oh well.... Google has never been know to be logical...
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Probably because full aspect ratio on phones would yield too tiny of a video strip in a phone screen. In portrait mode, I could envision some movie trailers taking up maybe only 10-15% of the screen with gigantic black bars.
iPad mini has a much larger screen relatively… maybe judged enough to show the full width of such video without cropping off the left & right chunks to “fill” the screen.
Just tried a typical 21:9 movie trailer in portrait on this Mini 6. Looked like it maybe had 20-25% of the screen with large black bars to fill the other approx 75%. It’s better in Landscape mode but on even a phone MAX screen, it would be small if fully preserved.
iPad mini has a much larger screen relatively… maybe judged enough to show the full width of such video without cropping off the left & right chunks to “fill” the screen.
Just tried a typical 21:9 movie trailer in portrait on this Mini 6. Looked like it maybe had 20-25% of the screen with large black bars to fill the other approx 75%. It’s better in Landscape mode but on even a phone MAX screen, it would be small if fully preserved.
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back when I had a Samsung Galaxy Tab, I used an Android app that forced YouTube(or any other video app) to zoom or crop to whatever I wanted.... I wonder if there's a similar iOS app.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
I haven’t heard of it on iOS. I would guess that security/sandboxing wouldn’t allow another app to affect a different one like that. Else virus app could more easily spread… recording app could record rented movies, etc. But maybe it does exist.
What you want here is not a universal want. Many people don’t want to cut off part of the movie or video to fill the space. They want to see the whole picture. There’s some stuff that positions the actors far left and/or right. Cropping like that can have actors doing their thing but you won’t see them.
The price to be paid in such situations is the black bar matting to fill the screen while supporting you getting to see everything… instead of only a zoomed portion of the video.
I realize people feel both ways about this topic but sometimes people don’t realize the full experience cost of cropping zooms.
What you want here is not a universal want. Many people don’t want to cut off part of the movie or video to fill the space. They want to see the whole picture. There’s some stuff that positions the actors far left and/or right. Cropping like that can have actors doing their thing but you won’t see them.
The price to be paid in such situations is the black bar matting to fill the screen while supporting you getting to see everything… instead of only a zoomed portion of the video.
I realize people feel both ways about this topic but sometimes people don’t realize the full experience cost of cropping zooms.