[mkohman]

I don’t have a scope screen, but aracnoz added these settings for this specific purpose: To resize the player OSD and/or the entire Kodi GUI.

 
I will try and explain this the best I can in order to avoid any kind of confusion....


I have a JVC projector and a HTPC, my screen is 2.39:1 format (135"). I only ever really watch 2.39 or 2.4 content on my setup and don't really care about 16:9 movies for the projector as I watch them on my 4K TV.


I use madVR with my HTPC along with my GPU Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB. I use madVR for tone mapping HDR also.

 
I overshoot my projector so that the top and bottom is overshooting the screen which leaves me a perfect fit for a 2.39 movie. In doing so, my Windows 10 HTPC desktop which was previously set to 3840 x 2160p 60hz (8bit) was overshooting my screen and I wanted to be able to view my entire desktop within my 2.39:1 screen. In order to do this I have searched the internet and asked on the forums how I can do this. I came across a YouTube video where I was guided to edit a registry file within "regedit" and put a custom resolution of 3840 x 1620p at 60hz which I have done and the result can be seen below:





After doing this regedit, I restarted my HTPC , went into the AMD software and selected 3840 x 1620p at 60hz for my desktop resolution. This was absolutely fine and I was happy with this. Here is what it looks like with this resolution on my 2.39 screen:





After I did this I opened up Kodi DSPlayer. My Kodi DSPlayer GUI has always been in 16:9 format within my 2.39 screen and my screen resolution has always been 3840 x 2160p and I have had no issues. Since changing my desktop resolution to a scope format I then wanted to change the way my Kodi DSPlayer looked on my screen . I wanted the GUI to fill the whole screen instead of just 16:9 format..


In order to do this I learned by experimenting that I had to set Kodi DSPlayer's resolution to the same as my desktop (3840 x 1620p) and when I do this the screen stretches out to fill 2.39 but still doesn't look quite right, however when I enable "use fullscreen window" then the GUI sits perfectly within inside my 2.39 screen.. Please see images below:



























So now the issue I was having is that my movies when played with madVR seemed to be downscaling to 3840 x 1620p and didn't play right.. it was stuttering. In order to avoid this I added screen resolutions (2160p23, 2160p24, 2160p30, 2160p50 and 2160p59) into madVR in the hope that it would force the videos to play in this format and not downscale it to 3840 x 1620p which was my desktop resolution and the resolution I had to set within madVR to get the GUI to display correctly.


In doing the above, the video plays correctly now (I think, please check the the images as the movies is 3840 x 2160 but it is showing 3840 x 1607, 2.39) please can you confirm this is OK? I think this is happening as I am using madVR black bar detection ..  Please see pics below:












Please note that in the above picture is says "D3D11 fullscreen windowed (8bit)" . as my movies are 4K HDR shouldn't it say 10bit Please can you advise me of this. I know this is because I have enabled "use fullscreen window" but I must do this if I want the Kodi GUI to be correct format within my screen aspect ratio.


Please see pictures below, this is what it looks like if I disable the "use fullscreen window" in Kodi .. It shows as D3D11 fullscreen (10bit) which is the correct format of the movie:





As I need Kodi GUI to be perfectly fit in my screen ratio, I select resolution as same as my desktop which is now 3840 x 1620p and enable "use fullscreen window" in Kodi for it to display correctly without any stretching happening.


My question really is, is there a way to get madVR to play this as a 10bit file or is it no problem if it is displays as (8bit) on the madVR OSD?