Need help from a video capture guru

[Rulke]

Greetings,

It's now time again for me to re-enter the world of video capture. I'll be using it for a blog I want to make while I play Tera. Anyway, there is one big mystery I can't figure out.

I record my videos using Fraps and compress them with VirtualDub. What I don't understand is how/when/why when I upload them to youtube do I get these 2 black "letter box bars" on my videos? I play/record at 1920x1080 which is 16:9 right? According to youtube this is the "ideal" format etc. Here is what my videos look like:



Unless I misread the info on youtube, I don't think Im suppose to be getting those bars.... am I? O_o Any help is appreciated.

[hey]

Your video is 2328x1080. How did you encode it?

[Rulke]

How did you find that info out? The info of the file on my comp still shows 1920x1080 (see pic) I am using the suggested divic codec for that res. (recording at 30fps)

Spoiler: show

[hey]

Right click->show video info on youtube.

No idea why youtube thinks the res is 2328x1080. Try reuploading it?

Also, divx is terrible, use h.264.

[Rulke]

Wow, that is nuts. Something in my codec must be doing that... Off a quick suggestion I tried windows movie maker and sure enough, its not a problem


I will look into the format you suggested, thanks a lot for your help!