Since the awful last Player update which I hate btw, I can’t find any settings about the aspect ratio? Everything is now playing full screen and the side are being chopped off, they all play fine with VLC. I presume there’s an aspect ration setting somewhere but I can’t find it anywhere after a lot of searching.
Could someone point me in the right direction?
Really, no answers at all? Is it that hard a question? Looks like I’ll be binning Plex for VLC then…
Plex was great before, now it’s just got so much worse, it’s such a shame…
There really is no support from PLEX
TBH, if the Plex support had been good I’d have paid for it ages ago, but it just doesn’t seem worth it when you get so little response.
As far as I can tell there’s no way in Plex to add a forced aspect ratio. You can do this though in a variety of video encoding programs that allow video passthrough - I used ffworks to batch export a 720x480 TV show in forced 4:3.
you could cycle through the aspect ratio by using Z on the keyboard
per https://support.plex.tv/articles/208052807-controlling-the-app/
I know that with the Apple TV app, I get this issue but if you go to settings and tell it to automatically convert smaller video files, it fixes the problem.
Settings>conversions>optimize for tv, fixed my aspect ratio issue
I cant find this conversation option ,I’m using the Plex app on my Samsung TV
Can you find a solution to force aspect ratio? I’m using Plex Server on a Synology NAS and play media on a Samsung QLED TV.
This thread is about the “Plex Media Player”.
This is not an umbrella term for all Plex clients, but a separate software Plex player for installation on computers.
Therefore all of the above doesn’t apply to smart TVs or other playback devices.
Just to answer the original question - and yes, PMP is still awful - but you can murder the aspect ratio by switching to TV Mode, go to settings and from there you can assault the aspect ratio.
You can also attempt to fix a horrific encode with those same settings - might work, might not.
