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Hello
Might be a rather simple problem but I have spent hours searching and can not find the answer at all.
I have several films which are 1920x800 but these are being labelled as '720 HD Ready' instead of '1080 Full HD'.
Is there a setting somewhere for what consititutes a Full HD film?
Just want to get all my films labelled correctly.
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Not sure I'd agree there. Lots of cinemascope Blu-rays only contain 1920x820ish active picture, with additional black lines top and bottom to pad to 1080. They are still described as 1080p, and when shown at 1080p you get full 1920 horizontal resolution. Cropping the black out of the 1080 line image to 800 isn't reducing the resolution, it is just removing the black lines (a pointless exercise probably as the black will take almost no data to encode)
To describe these 1920x800 videos as 720p is incorrect as the 720p format only has 1280x720 resolution and a 1920x800 massively exceeds that in horizontal resolution and would need to be downscaled to 1280x533 to be displayed in 720p.
I think if horizontal resolution >1280 OR vertical resolution >720 then you have a fair bet that the content started off 1080i or 1080p.
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Skins use the resolution that Kodi sets and 1920x800 will be set at 1080 normally so there's something else wrong here. Use Media Info to show us exactly what the details are for these files.
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So, if I get this right, the answer would be that the algorithm that says "720" or "1080" should be looking at the width *AND* the aspect ratio to work out 720 vs 1080.
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Thanks for the replys all.
noggin has it correct that the films have just had the black bars cut off.
Using Mediainfo the ones I have an issue with are coming up as;
1920x800 - 240:1
But then I also have some with the same resolution/aspect and they are labelled as 1080.
It bugs me more than anything really,
If more info is needed let me know.