[robl45]

MPC-hc has this option, it will scale a 2:35 film to 16:9 and it seems that xbmc will do this as well but only for 720p films. it will not scale my 1080p films to 16:9.

i have xbmc set to scale everything to 16:9 and it works for all my 720p films, but all my 3d SBS are 1080p and I find no way to be able to scale them to fullscreen 16:9 like I can with mpc-hc.

and yes I know that its stretching it and the aspect technically isn't right etc, but in all but a few shots, you can barely tell the difference and the difference between using half your screen and all your screen is worth it.

[T800]

If you don't care that the movie looks correct you could use the zoom mode.

[robl45]

zoom mode cuts off picture though. with the scale to 16:9 in mpc-hc, it just stretches the picture from what I can tell instead of zooming it which would cause the sides to get cut off.