So I’ve recently started ripping my DVD/Blu-ray collection to put on my Plex server. Everything is running smoothly except one thing. I’ll rip a Blu-ray using Makemkv and they’ll work perfectly except there will be black bars on the top and bottom of my screen (on some movies). I checked the video info of the movie that has black bars and the aspect ratio is 1.78, 1920x1080, and h.264 codec. I check one of the movies that fills up my whole screen and they both have the same info.
Is this something that is unavoidable? I know that lot’s of times the black bars are put there purposefully, but the inconsistency of my movies really bugs me.
Some widescreen movies come with black bars encoded onto the video, some don’t. If black bars are encoded the res will be 1920x1080, if not the res will be 1920x800 or some flavor of widescreen.
If you.use Handbrake or something you would crop the bars so you video would report the aspect ratio properly.
@JuiceWSA said:
Some widescreen movies come with black bars encoded onto the video, some don’t. If black bars are encoded the res will be 1920x1080, if not the res will be 1920x800 or some flavor of widescreen.
If you.use Handbrake or something you would crop the bars so you video would report the aspect ratio properly.
That would stretch the picture out wouldn’t it?
@JoeShtoops23 said:
That would stretch the picture out wouldn’t it?
no, during playback it would just put empty black space there
If the video itself has black at top and bottom of the image making it 16:9 then that is what will show in media info as 3840 x 2160 or 1920x1080, or 1280x720 . ( back in the day more would have been added to fit 4:3 screen instead of 16:9 ) some apps can be set to crop them out like VLC in windowed mode but if you play full screen there will still be black on top and bottom. handbrake can crop them out when it is converting file. ( i think makemkv only does remuxing so not sure if it can crop them out, but not sure.)
To be clear the actual movie was made to be wider than 16:9, that is why there is letter boxing. when you zoom in, you are cropping off the sides.
if the letterboxing/black bars are not in the actual video image, in iOS i think you can double tab screen and it will zoom to height of image, in PMP you can set a forced zoom ( or stretch taller) for this in settings. but if in the actual image then i don’t think those would do anything. ( i don’t have any movies currently with them in image to test)
If you watch a movie like the Darknight on bluray. where only some scenes were filmed in IMAX is a good example of this. The opening scene of bank robbery fills the entire screen because IMAX cameras make a taller image so when they put this on bluray for home use that part fills entire screen. the rest of the movie is wider than 16:9 and you will see letter boxing.
@BigWheel said:
@JoeShtoops23 said:
That would stretch the picture out wouldn’t it?
no, during playback it would just put empty black space there
If the video itself has black at top and bottom of the image making it 16:9 then that is what will show in media info as 3840 x 2160 or 1920x1080, or 1280x720 . ( back in the day more would have been added to fit 4:3 screen instead of 16:9 ) some apps can be set to crop them out like VLC in windowed mode but if you play full screen there will still be black on top and bottom. handbrake can crop them out when it is converting file. ( i think makemkv only does remuxing so not sure if it can crop them out, but not sure.)
but to be clear the actual movie was made to be wider than 16:9, that is why there is letter boxing. when you zoom in you are cropping off the sides.
if the letterboxing/black bars are not in the actual image in iOS i think you can double tab screen and it will zoom to height of image, in PMP you can set a forced zoom ( or stretch taller) for this in settings. but if in actual image then i don’t think those would do anything. ( i don’t have any movies currently with them in image to test)
If you watch a movie like the Darknight on bluray. where only some scenes were filmed in IMAX is a good example of this. The opening scene of bank robbery fills the entire screen because IMAX cameras make a taller image so when they put this on bluray for home use that part fills entire screen. the rest of the movie is wider than 16:9 and you will see letter boxing.
I gotcha. Thanks for explaining that for me!
