Forcing resolution to 1080p for "exotic" resolution movies

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Hello,

I have a bunch of movies with somewhat exotic resolutions such as 1856x1056, 1392x1056, 1728x1056 … When scanned plex map them with 720p resolution whereas I think it would be more accurate to map them to 1080p. Is there a way to force it ? And as it is now, does it mean than when read these movies are forced to 720p resolution ?

Thanks

[PerPLEXing] Movie Resolution Inconsistency
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Your first example, did that start as 1920x1080, and get cropped a bit? Or something else entirely? Your second example … is that 4:3 media? What the heck are these?

Obviously they’re not 720p. But that doesn’t make them 1080p. :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

I’m 99.9% sure the 4k/1080/720/480/SD labels displayed in the Library/Item view are only for human beings, and aren’t used at all for media playback.

I have lots of media that’s 1920x800, which is labeled as 1080p in the Library. On the one hand, sure. It’s ~1920 wide, which is really what 1080p means - that’s the resolution of a Blu-ray, after all. :man_facepalming:. Plex tries to follow what people “expect”, but the marketing terms are insane. Have you ever noticed that 720p and 1080p are vertical resolution, and 4k is horizontal? :woman_facepalming:

I think Plex has a surprisingly complicated table or algorithm or heuristic for choosing a label. There was Bickering about it on the forums long ago

I genuinely recommend you just ignore it.

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Yes, the topic has seen heated discussion.
From a technical viewpoint, these videos are indeed 1080p. because they only fit into the boundarx box of 1920x1080 pixels, but not into the boundary box of 720p, which is 1280x720 pixels.
So to play them, the playing device must support 1080p.

But of course some ppl argued that any value below 1080 is not true 1080p, so some heuristic was made up.

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Sure none of those are 1080p strictly speaking, I just wanted to use a plex filter to quickly spot non HD content on my library without having to dig into the actual files’ resolution. Anyway if that isn’t taken into account when played that’s not a big deal, I was just being curious on how Plew maps things

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Nothing in 2020 prepared me for the horrors of September 29: the first sighting of 1056p video.

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I’m also surprised they don’t show as 1080p, honestly. I’m just sure it doesn’t affect playback. :slight_smile:

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Tip: ExportTools

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Seems great, thx !

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