Hello Before I get in to it, I’m aware of > Crop Widescreen Borders/Zoom/Aspect Ratio and Remove Black Bars However they don’t seem to cover my feature “idea” as they are asking for auto crop/roku/android/etc/etc… I’d like a +/- control or % to zoom in to my video on PC/Web plex movie. In general …

looks like your image uploads to pasteboard have failed… so not exactly sure what “loss of video data” you’re experiencing.

Yeh passing links here somehow don’t work, just take the web link above and palce / between .co and the name. Should display 2 images with issues. Or just click on “broken” image and it will take you to website.

Looks like something went wrong when you encoded that video. Have you considered fixing this to start with? :wink:

I did not encode video, its just normal black borders. I guess its just format ? 3840x2160, all movies have different levels of “black-bars” don’t they ? Down to production to specify actual video width/height. I guess its “ok” when you have normal monitor, but I have one of those “ultra-wide” and…

The reason for black bars (today) is that disc have specifications for what video they should contain. For Blu-Ray based material that (usually) is 1080p, for 4K disks it’s… well… 4K resolution (2160x3840). Your 4K material seems to be a wider-screen 1080p (21:10 vs. 16:9 aspect ratio) put in fram…

Hello …why Plex should fix this Well lets look at alternatives… Encoding video with different crop/size to avoid borders: Pros: a.No Black Bars Cons: A. 4k HDR takes around 50gb(some that I have are 80 other 30), Say I have 3 screens, Normal LCD, wide, Ultra Wide, thats 150~ gb per movie, not …

This is quite a fundamental feature for a 21:9 user, sad to see that it’s still missing. Ideally all video files should be devoid of black bars (it should be the video player’s job to add them), but sadly that is far from the reality we are in. (you can see this on YouTube also, where some content…

See this workaround for the new Plex HTPC : [image] Using Plex HTPC on 21:9 aspect ratio screen Desktop Players Here is the full json file : { "name": "Generic Keyboard", "idmatcher": "Keyboard.*", "mapping": { "Left": "left", "Right": "right", "Up": "up…

Good workaround but Plex HTPC menu is a comparatively terrible UI for PC monitor use vs Plex for Windows, especially for 21:9 & 32:9 monitors. Found this post that works for Plex for Windows. Doesn’t have the preset jumps but does the ± adjustments fine: [image] Video Zoom (Crop) …

Hello, Currently, for 4K blu-ray remux rips with hardcoded top and bottom black bars and a 21:9 display, there will be left and right black bars. It would be great if Plex web player could detects these kind of situations and automatically fit the video to screen. Letterboxed 16:9 movie (hardcoded…

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BigWheel May 29, 2024, 1:39am 19

You can edit the input map to make keyboard shortcuts to do that. Info on that ( with specific details you can just copy for zoom options) can be found here. Use `mpv` features which are not exposed in Plex for Windows/Mac/Linux and Plex HTPC

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