Projector lens shift - automating the settings based on aspect ratio

[1971camaroguy 32]

Trying to think through this, I have a epson projector with lens shift and a 2:35 screen. I have two settings that I use, one for 16:9 and one for 2:35 (putting zooms out and puts black bars outside of the screen area onto the black area around the screen, not noticable) 

I have tiny media manager, and noticed you can generate xml's that will list the actual resolution of the movie and not 16:9 (with black bars). It mentioned that you can automate the projector to shift based on the movie aspect ratio automatically.  Anyone doing this and how did you accomplish it?

Another thing I thought of, is my movies are remux, uncompressed from the original disc. I can run Tdarr with a plugin that will crop out the black bars and you end up with a movie file that if it was a 2:35 movie in 16:9 format, it will be in the original format with no bars.

Any ideas? Suggestions? I might be overthinking it.

Set-up:

Epson 5040UB

Unraid running Emby in a docker

Nvidia shield 

2:35 screen w/blanking panels for 16:9 content

 

 

 

[Luke 42083]

Hi, there's nothing in Emby to automate a projector shift, but if you can handle webhooks that could be a way.

For example, an Emby Server webhook that fires when you start to play -> have some other server software receive the webhook, act on it, and change the projector accordingly.

[1971camaroguy 32]

Thanks for the quick reply

I decided to build a budget madvr, parts will be coming in over the next few weeks.

Bought everything used to save some money. Only new parts will be the silverstone case and power supply. Geforce RTX 3080 10gb GPU, Black Magic capture card, asrock z390 motherboard, 9th gen i7 processor, 32gb ram.

I'll have about $1,200 in everything and will use it between my shield and epson 5040ub projector on a cinema scope screen.

Cool thing it's supposed to do auto-aspect ratio and linear stretch. I can set the lens position and not have to mess with it again.