Tolerant 70 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 The "original" Emby program with Wndows Media Center, used to allow watching FullScreen in a modified widescreen view, or other views. Is there any 3rd party addon or program that would let Emby display that way currently using FireFox on Windows 10? It was such a great way to watch "older" shows without the black bars and it seems so sad no one has seemed to follow up on that aspect.. no pun intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 851 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Why do you need to watch things without the black bars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1523 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Do you want the image stretched (which will distort it), or cropped (which will cut bits off)? Wouldn't you rather see it as it was made to be seen? Paul 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolerant 70 Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 I thought I explained it.. and I did a bit of searching.. I am NOT the only person. .. who is like. WTF>> . why DONT we have this.. 10 years later.. when we HAD it.. honestly.. Just strech the 4:3.. a LITTLE.. trim a bit off the bottom/top.. make it work and adjust it to a full wide screen.. The CLASSIC WPC (windows media center) .. could adjust our aspect.. I just dont understand.. how this is 10-20 years later.. and ppl are STILL trying to just.. make it even half as good.. and missing the best parts of what made it all good. Trim.. %3 off the top.. stretch it out.. trim it a little.. whatever.. there was like 4 choices.. to "View" video aspect ratio .. with Windows Media Classic.. player .. with win7, or XP etc.. only until this became. WINDOWS.. EMBY .. stuff.. did all the Good tweaks.. disappear. we dont even get the good screen saver.. Go for it.. call me names.. insult me.. whatever.. but why are we stepping back 20 years for what we COULD DO.. and what we do now.. and limiting ourselves to even worse playback.. it makes no sense. Am I the ONLY one that actually remembers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 851 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 How is watching it the way it was meant to be watched "worse"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14905 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I think most TVs should still provide some sort of function to do this but the reason it isn't done much anymore is because it isn't usually desired anymore. In the early days of 16:9 TVs (20 years ago) people did not fully understand different aspect ratios because they had watched content on a 4:3 screen forever. So, when they first saw the black bars, they thought something was wrong and the industry was pretty much forced to come up with all sorts of algorithms for stretching and cropping content to appease the learning curve. Nowadays, there isn't much 4:3 content and, when there is, people fully understand why it is displaying the way it is (oh, how cute - it is an old show...). So, developers have stopped spending the time coming up with all of those special stretching and distortion functions. P.S. Same issue existed in the early days of DVD which is why most of them were initially produced in a "Full Screen" version which was a special edit of the film created with a technique called "pan and scan". The image wasn't distorted but someone looked at every frame and cropped it so that all the important information was always visible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloemoe 0 Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 There already exist some processing features. Seems the option to set pixel ratios or trimming top and bottom some for old TV series and such would be great for viewing 3X4 on these modern 9X16 displays. After all, many were shot on 35mm. Many of those old TV movies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visproduction 122 Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Well, I would prefer a warning for any film or video that is stretched, cropped or panned and scanned so I don't have to waste my time watching it. I don't want to see have a person cut off while they are speaking. I don't want to see anyone stretched, even a little, to make me think there is something physically wrong with this person. And I don't like the idea that the director framed a scene where a person on the left is looking at the photo on the wall to the right and I can't see either of them. Any full or cropped playback comes with a warning on TV now, that the original media has been cropped. That is exactly the time where I either switch the channel or turn it off and go do something else. I don't want to ever be shown a cropped, stretched or squashed playback and if anyone is planning to show a film like that, don't invite me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Hi, Emby does allow you to change the aspect ratio. Have you explored the cog menu during playback? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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