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The whole thing with getting kodi to display correct aspect ratio is not easy. He probably has a file encoded in 800-816 pixels height (1920 width) then kodi will display 2.35:1 or 21:9 (skin dependent).
If you have your movies ripped from bluray and not encoded, they are all 16:9, with black bars in the frame, that is how bluray works. I guess the best solution would be to somehow edit that tag manually for every movie. The next best thing is to avoid the tag.
That goes for the 5.1, 7.1 audio channel tag as well. It is somehow a part of the current ffdshow and it just doesn't work, never did, i believe. Numerous threads around on this topic. It should be fixed with kodi 15, but still not it the beta. Best would be if you could edit it manually or avoid the tag.

I already knew what a pain the aspect ratios were with bluray rips and apps like mediainfo since the black bars are part of the video file. I was resigned to manually edit the my NFO files to have the "real" aspect ratio. What I didn't know and have gotten a crash course on is that Kodi overrides the aspect ratio from the NFO after it has played the video. It looks like people have been trying to get this addressed for a few years but it does not look to be going anywhere soon. This being the case manually editing the aspect ratio in the NFO is just a waste of time.

This got me thinking... What about using tags instead? Tags seem like a good choice (they can even be used for playlists) but this would require the skin to use the tags when displaying the aspect ratio artwork. I'm not sure how difficult this is or even if Funkd would be open to the idea.

My thoughts on how to do this:
If there is a valid aspect ratio tag (as defined by the skin) then use this rather than the aspect ratio in the db.


Update: Upon further review I don't think tags are exposed for use in skins.

This whole aspect ratio thing really blows.