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I have some old SD videos that were recorded in 720:480. They seem "stretched" when playing in VLC. When I force the aspect ratio to 4:3, they appear correct. I did some research, and apparently this has to do with non-square pixels, or some such? Is there any way to force this 720:480 profile to this aspect ratio, or is it some bug where the video format is not being properly interpreted? The frame rate is 29.97 and decoded format is Planar 4:2:0 YUV. Maybe there is a way to force a particular decoding aspect ratio based on codec? Thank you!

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