Aspect ratio ok, but not full screen

[dhstraayer]

I haven't had this problem in the past. I switched from Fire Stick to Roku Ultra in order to use my collection of old dvds. But when I ripped "Lagaan", I got this result - black bars top, bottom, left and right! But notice that the captions are outside the picture. The problem shows both on the Roku and VLC. I'm using 18.3.

[tomty89]

Well what's the aspect ratio / resolution of your screen? As far as I can see here, the movie itself is 2.35:1 and most DVD releases of it seem to be 16:9 (the "widest" you get for DVD or BD) letterbox. In other words, the frames / images themselves carry black bar at the top and the bottom, and when they are displayed on screen wider than 16:9, you'd get "black bar" at the left and the right additionally (unless you crop the frames or "zoom in").

[dhstraayer]

This is just one example. Every DVD I've ripped with MakeMKV lately shows this problem. Notice the image I put in my post was from VLC, where I can set the aspect ratio of the "screen" anywhere I want. I can't avoid the downsizing of the image. In the past, I haven't seen this problem. But it's been some time since I used MakeMKV.

[tomty89]

I don't see any image in your post though. Perhaps you need to upload it somewhere else and paste a link.

And at the end of the day, is your "screen" 16:9? And have you tested with movie that is 16:9 itself (and that the DVD is NOT 4:3 letterbox)?

P.S. I haven't remuxed DVD with MakeMKV for quite a while. Maybe I'll try one when I have time and see if I can reproduce the problem.

[dhstraayer]

I've attached it again. This is what the mkv looks like. But when I use the $34 HDMI DVD player, the image is full screen.

[dhstraayer]

Something seems to be wonky with image attachments. I used the "add files" on the "Attachments" tab, and it seemed to show on the "Preview" view, as an attachment. But when I access in the forum, I don't see reference to the attachment. https://drive.google.com/file/d/11kcmSU ... sp=sharing this should work.

[dhstraayer]

That embedded link seems to be working fine. I don't know what is going with the normal attachments mechanism. Once again, when I play that same DVD on an HDMI DVD player, it projects fine --- full screen. And I used MakeMKV in the past and didn't see this issue.