[Talguy]

zoom control can remove black bars and zoom them away. You will cut-off some of the image on a 16:9 screen, of course. It is meant for constant image height projection, where the screen is extra-wide.

Check the setup guide for more detail. You want the settings for Big Black Bars.

Thanks for the input.

Ok so I just tested out zoom control against the movie The Martian. This movie is encoded with the black bars from the studio so that the picture is reported to the player as 16:9. Kodi's standard zooming features can not handle this at all since the reportyed aspect ratio matches my display. I did as warner306 suggested and used Madvr's zoom control with the Big Black bars option checked. Worked like a charm without any noticeably weird stretching of the overall picture. Also felt like a lot of the picture wasn't missing which was nice. However I won't be able to daily this option as it increased my rendering time by +40ms. Maybe I'll wait till a pascal card is available to purchase before I try to use this option all the time. Or say screw it and just by a cineascope screen and projector set cause we all know that will probably happen in the future