Magnetron 1 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I've been looking to move to the new Emby Theater, but is it possible to remove letter boxing/black bars on videos and if so how? I appreciate some videos have been shot at cinema aspect ratios, but quite frankly I would rather maximize my viewing real estate. I have tried the following in Emby Theater: Settings > Video Player > Configure Video Renderer > EVR but dont seem to be able to find EVR Setting to change the scaling mode to "Touch Inside" as per previous posts. Tried adding VLC as an External Player, but the path never saves and doesn't seem to work. Suggestions welcomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Try switching to MadVR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnetron 1 Posted July 20, 2016 Author Share Posted July 20, 2016 Hi Doofs, thanks for the suggestion. I have tried MadVR on all 4 smooth motion mode settings, with no change to the video black bars. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of Emby Theatre without a Premiere account, but every time I go back from the settings menu it appears MadVR doesnt save and stay enabled (highlighted green). If you have this working, could you please confirm which "smooth motion mode" you have this working on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 (edited) Hi Doofs, thanks for the suggestion. I have tried MadVR on all 4 smooth motion mode settings, with no change to the video black bars. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of Emby Theatre without a Premiere account, but every time I go back from the settings menu it appears MadVR doesnt save and stay enabled (highlighted green). If you have this working, could you please confirm which "smooth motion mode" you have this working on? Those settings (smooth motion), aren't applicable to the aspect. You're able to use these settings? If yes, we need more information. Can you post a screen shot of what is occurring? Maybe share a sample of the file? @@Luke, are the settings dependent on the premiere subscription? Edited July 20, 2016 by Doofus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 No, the settings aren't. All you have to do is just back out of the page and they'll save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitty018210 52 Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Sorry about the hijack here, but one of the main reason I haven't use theater very much is because I haven't figured out how to remove or "zoom" in to remove 4:3 ratio boxes the way WMC dose. I know you can use external video player but I would rather not. I've asked about this before and way told it was something that be worked on but I've not seen any setting to do this. Is there? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I've been looking to move to the new Emby Theater, but is it possible to remove letter boxing/black bars on videos and if so how? I appreciate some videos have been shot at cinema aspect ratios, but quite frankly I would rather maximize my viewing real estate. I have tried the following in Emby Theater: Settings > Video Player > Configure Video Renderer > EVR but dont seem to be able to find EVR Setting to change the scaling mode to "Touch Inside" as per previous posts. Tried adding VLC as an External Player, but the path never saves and doesn't seem to work. Suggestions welcomed. Is your issue that you have a movie that is completely surrounded by black bars on all sides of the screen so that the movie is playing in a small rectangle in the center of your TV or are you talking about having bars only at the top/sides and wanting to stretch and distort that image to fill a monitor that's a different shape than the video? If it's the former switching to MadVR from EVR may clear it. If it's the latter...well Luke will probably say it's something they want to implement. I'll say I'm sure there are counselors that can help you with that desire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnetron 1 Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 Thanks guys, appreciate the input. Black bars top and bottom (the later Deathsquirrel). Has anyone had any success with an external player such as VLC to work around this and get video stretch? I've tried using VLC and parsing command lines but the program doesn't seem to start once content is selected via Emby. If not then I guess I'm stuck with WMC until Luke works his magic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1052 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 I'll say I'm sure there are counselors that can help you with that desire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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