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.