Aspect ratio problem

[McChen 7]

The aspect ratio is off when I play Live TV and Recorded TV. The player fits it to the screen and doesn't preserve the aspect ratio. This is most noticeable on my Nexus 9 which has a 4:3 screen, but most TV these days is 16:9. So it ends up with a 16:9 video playing in 4:3 aspect ratio, everything looks squished. Same thing happens if you try and watch 4:3 on a 16:9 Android device. This is only with live and recorded tv, the movie library plays with the correct ratios. I think this is as issue with the internal player in the Android client. The web client works fine. Anyone else having this problem?

[AdrianW 1053]

Lots of TV broadcasts are actually anamorphic - i.e. they're 4:3 but have an anamorphic flag which tells the TV to stretch the image to 16:9. It sounds like the Android app isn't respecting the anamorphic flag.

[McChen 7]

I don't think it's an anamorphic issue, I'm not sure how prevalent that is in the US. A 4:3 broadcast on a 16:9 screen is still stretched out. On android it seems to just fit the video to the screen irregardless of any aspect ratio.

[CFC 25]

This is a relatively old topic, but I installed serverWMC today, and yes, I'm getting the same behavior with Live TV.

In my case I'm using a rooted NookHD+ which has a 3:2 aspect ratio (1920*1280) - movies, tv and channels all properly add black bars for the correct display ratio, Live TV doesn't.

CFC

[perx 4]

I'm also having this issue, were you able to find a solution? Live tv is fine, it only happens with recorded tv.