Christian Selig on Nostr: CrazIly enough, with YouTube there's no way to know the aspect ratio of a video ...
CrazIly enough, with YouTube there's no way to know the aspect ratio of a video (unless you inspect the video file which is against ToS). Even the YouTube API doesn't reveal that info, halfway between always assuming 16:9 and screenshotting then measuring black bars in code
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