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I'm new to UMS after using PS3MS for the last few years, so I'm using the latest version 5.2.2. I've never had this issue on PS3MS, but with UMS the playback on my TV appears stretched on any video that I play in my library. If I switch playback to my PS3, the screen does not appear stretched.

I've checked the settings, but I can't find anything that would be causing this. I've also looked in the config file, but can't find anything there either.

Let me know if you can help me with this, thanks!

On my old Sony KDL W5500, if the movie is not straight up 16:9 or 4:3, the picture is always stretched :/
I have to use mencoder option:

(width/height < 1.7 || width/height > 1.8) :: -vf expand=::::1:16/9

to fix it

You can probably add the following line to your renderer's configuration file to fix it:

KeepAspectRatio = true

But I would be curious to get logs from a file that works in PS3MS and does the stretching in UMS so we can see if there's another difference.

SubJunk wrote:You can probably add the following line to your renderer's configuration file to fix it:

KeepAspectRatio = true

But I would be curious to get logs from a file that works in PS3MS and does the stretching in UMS so we can see if there's another difference.

This works for my KDL-W5500, the only diffence is mEncoder puts the subtitles outside the picture frame (in the black bars), which i like.
With FFMPEG the subtitle is in the picture, and slightly squeezed.

For how long has this KeepAspectRatio setting been available xD?
I think this should be added to most of the older Sony's conf.
Would make a lot of Sony users happy.

Could you see if using this line works instead?

SubJunk wrote:Could you see if using this line works instead?

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TranscodeVideo = MPEGTS-MPEG2-AC3

Was this for for me? Anyways, i tried switching. Same result.
Not at all a big problem.. just noticed the difference.

Cool Can you also try MPEGTS-H264-AC3?
I have often found that renderers only stretch video for certain codecs and it's a bit cleaner to change our transcoding codec than to use the other commands

Hmm.. just to be sure we're on the same page here

All in all KeepAspectRatio works with both ffmpeg and mencoder

Only subtitles are placed different with mencoder vs ffmpeg.
Mencoder places the subtitles outside the picture frame (in the black borders) whereas ffmpeg places the subtitles inside the picture frame (and only the subtitles appear slightly squeezed)

Thats all. =)

Cool, I just mean I would rather use TranscodeVideo=MPEGTS-H264-AC3 than use KeepAspectRatio=true, if they both fix the stretching issue

Oh ok, got it.

I tried the two without KeepAspectRatio, but that leaves the picture stretched.
KeepAspectRatio is definitely needed for my W5500.

Edit: TranscodeVideo=MPEGTS-H264-AC3 produces weird behavior, more specifically; if i search the movie the picture doesent update (only sound plays)