Black bars on all sides of some movies - Emby Theater for Windows

[Starlionblue 80]

Aha!

I tried 4:3 and 1:1. That definitely made a difference.

For fun, I tried 3840:1600, but that got me back to square one. At a guess "auto" is just the native monitor resolution.

And you were right, setting a ratio different from the screen just stretches the video. I guess I'll just have to live with it. Or watch on the TV.

Thanks for the efforts!

[sooty234 266]

Let's add logging. Add this to the mpv.conf as the first line.

log-file=" "

And add the location and file name of the file you're creating, between the speech marks. I'd suggest your desktop.

Something like log-file="C:\Users\yourname\Desktop\mpv log.txt"

Play the video, post the log.

And remember, you can still use 'cover'

[Starlionblue 80]

40 minutes ago, sooty234 said:

Let's add logging. Add this to the mpv.conf as the first line.

log-file=" "

And add the location and file name of the file you're creating, between the speech marks. I'd suggest your desktop.

Something like log-file="C:\Users\yourname\Desktop\mpv log.txt"

Play the video, post the log.

And remember, you can still use 'cover'

I didn't manage to start logging by using mpv.conf, so I installed MPV and ran it with a command line switch. Apparently you require -v first, like this:

mpv "s:\Movie Temp\Alien Worlds\Season 1\Alien Worlds - 1x01 - Atlas.mkv" -v --log-file=C:\Users\andre\AppData\Roaming\mpv\mpv_log.txt

Here's the file.

Edited December 16, 2020 by Starlionblue

[sooty234 266]

I wanted to see the log to see if the option was being applied, but you proved it was.

Here it is in the log, anyway

[   0.050][v][cplayer] Setting option 'monitoraspect' = '3840:1600' (flags = 4)

I think you just need to use 'cover' or you could re-encode it and remove the padding. It's pretty easy to do.

[Starlionblue 80]

Just now, sooty234 said:

I wanted to see the log to see if the option was being applied, but you proved it was.

Here it is in the log, anyway

[   0.050][v][cplayer] Setting option 'monitoraspect' = '3840:1600' (flags = 4)

I think you just need to use 'cover' or you could re-encode it and remove the padding. It's pretty easy to do.

Thanks very much for your kind efforts.