I am playing back a 480i video on the Plex FireTV app.
The output looks great, but it doesn’t fill the screen.
I have tried this on a 1080 and a 4K TV.
It seems that the video is playing at native resolution with no upscaling.
I have a similar issue with 1080p videos not filling the 4k screen…
I tried fooling around with the Plex app settings, but I was not able to alter the playback size.
Am I missing something with either Plex Server or the Plex App settings?
Should I be looking to my TV or PrePro to upscale video from 480i to 1080 or 4K?
During playback, click down on your remote, then click the vertical ellipsis (vertical dots on the right). Select Playback Settings and then set Aspect Ratio to something other than Original. Letterbox generally works, but Stretch or Zoom may be needed, depending on the content and your preferences.
Yes, it does, at least for my Android clients (the only ones for which the setting is available, at least as far as I know).
There is none that I’m aware of. I just performed a (very quick) search of https://support.plex.tv/articles/ and didn’t see anything applicable (no mention of the aspect ratio setting). I (and some others, as I recall) found the setting just poking around a couple of years ago. The documentation they have is generally good, but it’s far from comprehensive.
Hmm. I don’t have a way of testing this. Though filling the screen is never the goal for me; I just want the aspect ratio to be preserved while not cropping anything. Letterboxing and pillar boxing, one or the other, not both, don’t bother me. Incorrect aspect ratio does.
Old 480 video frames have a different shape. To fill a 16:9 screen, the image will need to be zoomed (cropping the edges) or stretched in some way, distorting it. There’s no way to fill a modern screen with old programming without one of those compromises.
