Small box in the middle only

[aserwatuk 1]

I don't understand why Emby does this. I have an ultrawide monitor (5120 x 1440), and I understand that the aspect ratio may be more narrow than that. But, should it not fill to the top and bottom and leave black space on the left and right? Why won't it fill to the full height?

If I do "Cover" it chops off the top and bottom but it's as wide as the screen
If I do "Fill" then it has black letterboxing at the top and bottom, but stretches everything to the width.

Is there no option to have it "fill" to the height?

Edited December 29, 2024 by aserwatuk

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[Luke 42078]

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[aserwatuk 1]

Here's the logs from that time.
Screenshot was in the first  post, but here it is again.
This happens on both Web and Theatre, on both Windows and Mac.
When I play on the TV (Nvidia Shield or Roku) or Android device (Samsung S24U) it looks fine.

 

 

 

 

 

embylog.txt

Edited December 30, 2024 by aserwatuk

[Luke 42078]

Hi, please attach the ffmpeg log as well from that example. Thanks.

[aserwatuk 1]

It wasn't generating an FFMpeg log when playing in Theatre.
When I played from the Web it did (still direct play, but was converting the audio)

embyserver.txtffmpeg-remux-9b3078f6-4f1e-45fa-9c13-0e891df27bf0_1.txt

[pwhodges 2012]

I wonder if this is related:

Paul

[aserwatuk 1]

I believe it's in a similar concept.
The person in the linked wants to default to cover. Presumably they are OK with having the top and bottom chopped off.
I'd rather keep everything from the height, and letter box the sides.

Instead of this (black surrounding the entire video)

or this (top and bottom chopped off)

Even putting it in windowed mode and trying to resize the window.. it still has the top and bottom black despite the fact that there would be space that could be filled

 

This would be ideal (cropped this to be an example)

[Lessaj 467]

The video resolution in the example provided is 3840x2160, so it is filling the screen vertically already and cannot display any wider, this video must have letterboxing as part of the video track given that resolution and how it's being displayed. If you wanted it to fill the screen more you'd have to re-encode it without the letterboxing, this would still have letterboxing on the sides with your aspect ratio. I have ultra wide monitors, not super ultra wide, but the concept is the same. This 1080p version has the letterboxing cropped out, so it fills my screen.

This 4k version is 3840x2160, so it is letterboxed in the video and doesn't fit into the wide format and has black bars on both sides.

If I set the Aspect Ratio to Cover it will fill my screen, it might be cropping just a few pixels, but again that's because this is a 21:9 aspect ratio which is close to the often used cinematic aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but since you have a super ultra wide trying to fit that video into a 32:9 aspect ratio will cut off a lot of the top and bottom.

[aserwatuk 1]

Not sure why I hadn't thought of that. I guess, the black in the video matched so cleanly with the black letterboxing from Emby it didn't occur to me.

 

That's a little frustrating, but at least I have an explanation now. thanks.