2024-03-28, 01:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-03-28, 01:14 PM by Sennerz. Edited 6 times in total.)
Hi Jellyfin,
I am currently working on a little retro project consisting of Jellyfin with all my retro 80's and 90's TV Shows & Movies on an old 4:3 CRT TV. All of my media is in 4:3 format which is then sent through Amazon Firestick, into an HDMI to SCART and then into the CRT TV. Everything is working great, Jellyfin is providing a great experiece BUT I have one last problem, as follows...
As the HDMI to SCART is chucking out a 16:9 signal, even though the videos are 4:3 and the CRT TV is 4:3, the signal becomes a 16:9 again due to the HDMI to SCART conversion, resulting in a small picture with black bars at the sides. Jellyfin's 'Stretch' option works a treat to get the picture to display correctly, filling the screen without the black bars. However, every time I play something I have to click 'Stretch' and it's becoming very annoying.
Could we please have the option to select a default viewing mode? If I could set & forget to 'Stretch' for everything, my project would be complete and exactly how I want it. I could seemlesly switch between series or episodes and everything would display correctly, it would be perfect!
I don't know if there is a workaround for this, I've looked and racked my brain but I can't come up with anyhting. If anyone knows of one please let me know.
Thanks
Andy
I am currently working on a little retro project consisting of Jellyfin with all my retro 80's and 90's TV Shows & Movies on an old 4:3 CRT TV. All of my media is in 4:3 format which is then sent through Amazon Firestick, into an HDMI to SCART and then into the CRT TV. Everything is working great, Jellyfin is providing a great experiece BUT I have one last problem, as follows...
As the HDMI to SCART is chucking out a 16:9 signal, even though the videos are 4:3 and the CRT TV is 4:3, the signal becomes a 16:9 again due to the HDMI to SCART conversion, resulting in a small picture with black bars at the sides. Jellyfin's 'Stretch' option works a treat to get the picture to display correctly, filling the screen without the black bars. However, every time I play something I have to click 'Stretch' and it's becoming very annoying.
Could we please have the option to select a default viewing mode? If I could set & forget to 'Stretch' for everything, my project would be complete and exactly how I want it. I could seemlesly switch between series or episodes and everything would display correctly, it would be perfect!
I don't know if there is a workaround for this, I've looked and racked my brain but I can't come up with anyhting. If anyone knows of one please let me know.
Thanks
Andy