title: DAR (display aspect ratio) and PAR (pixel aspect ratio) not taken into account?
body: <p>I'm using flowplayer to display videos having various display aspect ratios and pixel aspect ratios.
  The size of the HTML element where the player is displayed in is 640x320, i.e. has a 16:9 aspect ratio.</p>
  
  <p>My first question is: does flowplayer honour DARs (display aspect ratios) and/or PARs (pixel aspect ratio) metadata from the source video container (for example an MP4 container)? Quick tests indicate that this is <em>not</em> the case and only the width and height of the video frames are used, neglecting DAR and PAR. Is this true? I've searched through various forums / web but was not able to find a definitive answer to this.</p>
  
  <p>As an example: I have a video with a frame size of 480x360 (a 4:3 AR), a PAR value of 104:59 (1.76) and DAR is 416:177 (2.35). Therefore, I would expect this video to be displayed as cinemascope (aspect ratio of 2.35) in flowplayer, with black bars (letterboxed) added at the top and bottom. However, flowplayer displays it as a 4:3 video, only considering the frame size of the input video. I have also tried changing the clip-option 'scale' to a different value but that did not help either.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone confirm or deny this? If it is true, what would you guys usually do in such a case, i.e. having a wider-than-usual aspect ratio? Would you simply re-encode the video and changing the frame size accordingly so that the aspect ratio is maintained?</p>
  
  <p>Regards,
  Chris</p>