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When square pixels aren’t square (alexwlchan.net)
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[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, interesting. TIL videos can have non-square pixels.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I think the pixels themselves are still square, they just get scaled by the player to display, a bit like looking at a 1080p video on a 4k screen.

I remember this being a thing a long long time ago when TV rips were more common and would display janky on playback unless you forced the aspect ratio but I haven't come across it in forever.