I recently purchased a bluray of an old Republic serial and the aspect ratio is 1.33:1 and the resolution is labeled on the disc as 1440x1080 HD. If I play the actual disc on my Oppo bluray player it looks fine, but after ripping the disc using the latest version of MakeMKV or DVDFAB 11, the actual image is squeezed a bit. I used MKVToolsNix to try to fix it and its not working or I’m missing something on the process when using the Header Editor.
Thought I would ask on here since I’m running into deadends on the forum for MakeMKV and MKVToolsNix. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Try re-encoding it with Handbrake
disable anamorphic on whatever ripping software you use.
How are you fixing it with the MKVToolNix Header Editor? I have had success by tweaking the Video Display Width and Video Display Height values.
In this example I had video that should display in a 4x3 aspect ratio, but it was stretched to a wide screen format.
Looking at the Video Display Width and Video Display Height values they were 1920x1040. I just left the height value alone and did the math to get a 4x3 ratio width. The new width [(1040/3)x4] came out to 1386.6666666…which I just rounded up to 1387.
The video now plays without being stretched.
Edit: There are inconsistencies across my Plex clients with this.
Android TV on Nvidia Shield: The new Plex video player will abide by the new Video Display Width value. However, if I disable the new video player then the Video Display Width value is ignored and the video is stretched.
Android phone app: Abides by the new Video Display Width value
Plex Web: Using Plex Web via Chrome, the video is displayed per the new Video Display Width value. Firefox on the other hand ignores the new Video Display Width value and stretches the video.
Plex for Mac and Windows: Abides by the new Video Display Width value…on Windows 10 anyway.
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