auto stretch 4:3 video

[Bottles51 70]

Can we get a setting to auto stretch 4:3 video ether on the app or the server itself. I know we have a setting to do it, but It gets tiresome to have to stretch the video each time you play something.

[Luke 39685]

Hi, yes it's not a bad idea.

[SikSlayer 240]

Hi, yes it's not a bad idea.

 

Exactly. Zooming in if its got black bars (ie, a widescreen content in a 4:3 video) is fine, but stretching native 4:3 content is foolish.

Everything will look distorted. A simple way to see this is to check for anything that should be a perfect circle.

Edited March 30, 2020 by SikSlayer

[Bottles51 70]

So just to be clear on subject.was not asking for this to be default. Just want the choice to auto stretch or zoom both would be great

[SikSlayer 240]

It'd be tough to autodetect even the zooming for black bars. To set zooming/stretching as a default... that's just a mess in the waiting.

[Bottles51 70]

The server can tell the aspect ratio of the file .so then it needs to tell it to stretch on a 4:3 video. Not to compair because I know kodi is totally different. But kodi can do this.

[Bottles51 70]

Just a reply to bump this one back up. Hope we can get some more likes for this option.

[Bottles51 70]

Bump

 

[bblackmoor 15]

Is it possible to vote against feature requests? If so, I would like to vote against this one. If the development team for Emby is as small as I think it is, I would hate for their time to be spent on implementing such a terrible idea.

Why on Earth would anyone ever intentionally distort a picture to fit some arbitrary piece of hardware.

[Luke 39685]

40 minutes ago, bblackmoor said:

Is it possible to vote against feature requests? If so, I would like to vote against this one. If the development team for Emby is as small as I think it is, I would hate for their time to be spent on implementing such a terrible idea.

Why on Earth would anyone ever intentionally distort a picture to fit some arbitrary piece of hardware.

Well as they say, to each their own.

[Bottles51 70]

up

[smsamee 3]

Auto-stretch for 4:3 content is highly needed. Almost all external players have this option. 

[kingy444 113]

Definitely understand some people would like the original aspect - personally I really hate the black bars

 

i disagree there would be much time wasted here as the code to do the stretching exists manually already, you just need to set it manually

 

having this as a playback option under user profile would be a great addition. Default can stay as auto and everyone wins  

[reven 0]

+1 to this.  but not just for 4:3, make it have default zoom for different types of videos, 2.25:1, i want to zoom in to crop the black bars.   i dont need it to automatically detect black bars, those have already been removed from the file.

really shocked its not already a thing.  its really annoying to have to push down, right, right right, right, right, ok, go to zoom, go to zoom each tv episode.   with more and more tv shows using a non 16:9 format, this is becoming more and more annoying.

plex does this, but I recently switched to emby, and this is my only real issue with it.

So if we could get an option under playback settings per user, for "Default Zoom": "Default" / "Auto" or something that would be fantasic. 

Edited March 10, 2024 by reven

[ebr 15584]

3 hours ago, reven said:

i want to zoom in to crop the black bars. 

You really want to chop off the sides of widescreen content?

[reven 0]

yes, yes i do.  I rather loose a tiny amount on the sides, to fill my tv screen.