Black bars left, right, top, bottom, but correct AR

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dhstraayer
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Black bars left, right, top, bottom, but correct AR

Post by dhstraayer » Sun Jun 14, 2026 12:19 am

Shows same on Roku Ultra and VLC. Aspect ratio is fine, but wasting a lot of screen.
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Woodstock
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Re: Black bars left, right, top, bottom, but correct AR

Post by Woodstock » Sun Jun 14, 2026 2:21 am

Running the file through a program like handbrake will strip the black bars, making the file smaller.

tomty89
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Re: Black bars left, right, top, bottom, but correct AR

Post by tomty89 » Sun Jun 14, 2026 11:38 am

That's perfectly normal / expected when you play letterbox material on a non-4:3 screen though. You could "zoom in" / crop to get rid of the bars at the top and the bottom, but I suspect that the DVD subtitle would then not be shown properly.

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