[Solved] Vizio M-series aspect ratio

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coreyschaff
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[Solved] Vizio M-series aspect ratio

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I am having an issue with the aspect ratio on my Vizio M series TV. I stream .mkv files, but the tv displays them with a black bar on top and bottom. It shows the resolution as 1920x1080, but the actual video is cropped.

I used the search function and didnt find any help. Anyone run into this issue and find a fix?
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Sami32
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Re: Vizio M-series aspect ratio

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viewtopic.php?f=9&t=556

You can add this line to your renderer configuration file:

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KeepAspectRatioTranscoding = true
Hoping that helped you.
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Re: Vizio M-series aspect ratio

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What is the actual resolution of the video file? Sometimes black bars are good things.
Like Sami32 linked, if you provide logs we can see
coreyschaff
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Re: Vizio M-series aspect ratio

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After doing some more digging, I figured out that the source files are the problem. They all have the width of 1920 but most of them have a height of only about 800. Now I just need to figure out the reason why...

So it looks like the TV is doing what it should.
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Re: Vizio M-series aspect ratio

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coreyschaff wrote:They all have the width of 1920 but most of them have a height of only about 800.
If the movie has been made for cinema, then that is perfectly normal =)
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Re: Vizio M-series aspect ratio

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Yeah like squadjot said that is a normal aspect ratio for movies :) I'm marking this as resolved
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