21.9 Aspect Ratio - Movies

[mattkidd]

Hey,

Ive recently just purchased the LG 29" 21.9 Monitor (2560x1080)

Fantastic monitor although I'm having hiccups in getting content to display well on the screen.

I have to say I am a complete newbe at understanding both resolution and aspect ratio and would appreciate any support.

It seems to be obvious that some content will display at the full resolution/aspect ratio filling the whole screen. However most content doesn't and simply displays at the native 1080p centring directly in the screen.

To my understanding mostly this is due to how its been encoded/filmed which Ill accept for now. What I can't however understand is how some of my (ripped) movies will display perfectly and others don't. (Blu-ray rips)

What would be the best way for me to import movies through my current methods (Make MKV) (Handbrake) and to optimise them for this new resolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t56ooXC9VmY Looks fantastic in original settings with the picture filling the entire display. How can I get my imports to do the same?

Would appreciate some support/explaining :\

 

[Accord99]

Have you checked the original aspect ratio of the movies? Roughly half of all widescreen movies have an AR of roughly 16:9.

 

[mattkidd]

Have you checked the original aspect ratio of the movies? Roughly half of all widescreen movies have an AR of roughly 16:9.

I guess quite a few would be 16.9. I have a collection of over 500 all encoded and placed within iTunes, with a mixture being DVD's and full HD blurays.

Is it possible to convert those from 16.9 to 21.9 without loosing too much quality?

 

[Accord99]

Is it possible to convert those from 16.9 to 21.9 without loosing too much quality?

I don't think it'll be easy, if you cut the top and bottom of movies and TV shows framed for 16:9, you'll probably lose a lot of information (i.e. heads cut off).

 

[alcoholbob]

Most films have an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 thats probably why they seem to be fitting well.

 

[purbeast0]

your 16:9 movies will have bars on the side of them. to make them fit your full screen will mean you have to distort the picture or zoom in, which would cut off some of the side, and won't be 1080p (what you are seeing won't since stuff is missing from the screen).

having bars on the side of 16:9 movies was one of the reasons i didn't go with a cinemascope screen for my projector. i have seen 16:9 movies with bars on the side and it messes with my head and looks like it's compressing the picture.

 

[darkswordsman17]

OP, why not just have your player zoom? Most have several options for getting the optimal fit (and yeah its a pain as some movies are a hassle to get the right one). You'll want to also find the right plugin/external processing or whatever to offer you good quality as well (madVR with MPC-HC worked well although I haven't been using it with the most recent ones, been meaning to look into what's the best quality option for Blu-ray rips).

That'd be better than specifically changing the encoding in case you have different displays you want the content on.

your 16:9 movies will have bars on the side of them. to make them fit your full screen will mean you have to distort the picture or zoom in, which would cut off some of the side, and won't be 1080p (what you are seeing won't since stuff is missing from the screen).

having bars on the side of 16:9 movies was one of the reasons i didn't go with a cinemascope screen for my projector. i have seen 16:9 movies with bars on the side and it messes with my head and looks like it's compressing the picture.

You just need a "filter" that blocks it out. What I mean by that, and I remember YoYo doing it, was to make a special thing that you could adjust for different aspect ratios so that you could get optimal size by having your equipment scale it to take advantage of the projector's output, and using the "filter" helps get rid of the black bars so you focus on just the actual part you can see. The filter was some wooden frame with some cloth material IIRC.

 

[purbeast0]

OP, why not just have your player zoom? Most have several options for getting the optimal fit (and yeah its a pain as some movies are a hassle to get the right one). You'll want to also find the right plugin/external processing or whatever to offer you good quality as well (madVR with MPC-HC worked well although I haven't been using it with the most recent ones, been meaning to look into what's the best quality option for Blu-ray rips).

That'd be better than specifically changing the encoding in case you have different displays you want the content on.



You just need a "filter" that blocks it out. What I mean by that, and I remember YoYo doing it, was to make a special thing that you could adjust for different aspect ratios so that you could get optimal size by having your equipment scale it to take advantage of the projector's output, and using the "filter" helps get rid of the black bars so you focus on just the actual part you can see. The filter was some wooden frame with some cloth material IIRC.

yeah there are ways you can mask it, but i didn't want to bother with any of that. a lot of people use like black velvet masks so that the projteced black light doesn't even show up on it.

the bars on the top of the screen don't bother me in the least either. they haven't really bothered me since i got a tv bigger than 19" heh.