Way to often I come across a poorly encoded film. It seems that today’s Blu-rays are being encoded, by default, in 16:9 regardless of the source material. With 99% of films, that leaves black bars. This is no problem when watching on a 16:9 monitor, but with other aspect ratios, you end up with blac…

i also use the crop feature in vlc to make movies fit my 2.39 scope screen. i use plex but can not in my dedicated home theater because it lacks this feature. would love to see it implemented though!

Yes, Plex has troubles with movies like this. I run into it with a few rips of DVDs produced in the '90s. I’m not sure of the right term, but it is a way of squeezing 16:9 movies into a 4:3 window. Straight DVD rips, via MakeMKV, end up with bars on all four sides. Two that I have are DVDs of “…

Crop to aspect ratio

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Crop to aspect ratio

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