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If your 4:3 content has black bars on all 4 sides, then they're encoded in the movie. That's fine, just use the "crop black bars" feature.
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That worked for a widescreen show, it expanded to fill the screen horizontally. When I tried a 4:3 show though, it just shows at a normal 4:3 ratio, with black all the way around as if I had a widescreen television.
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Confirmed, the setting isn't sticking for mine either, and these videos were created exactly the same way.
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oh i'm sure the setting is sticky. however, we calculate the bars when the setting is toggled. the first frame of a video is very often black which means sanity says no to the calced values.
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The thumbnails it produces aren't from the first frame. Would it be possible to use that same spot for determining the bar setting?
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yes, something like that must be performed.
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OK guys I'm either thick or stupid (some would say both probably), but I'm obviously missing the point here - at least certainly the one I enquired about?
Should this setting remain default if checked and 'use as default for all movies' is triggered - or does it have to be manually checked for each movie/tv show.
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read what i wrote, then engage your brain.
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fine. yes. apparently the other guy understood it just fine, but hey! it must be me doing something wrong eh.
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i explained
1) that the setting is sticky
2) why that doesn't help you one bit
3) in a follow up question; what needs to be done to remedy the problem.