Aspecta Cinema Player

[kaynayz91]

Hi everyone,
 
I wanted to share something I’ve been working on that may be useful for some Jellyfin users with projector, scope screen, or Constant Image Height setups.
 
It’s called Aspecta Cinema Player, and it’s an Android TV / Google TV external player designed to automatically detect black bars and resize video to suit your selected screen format.
 
The main idea is simple: if you use a projector or scope screen and are tired of manually changing zoom modes, Aspecta can help keep the presentation consistent by automatically adapting to the movie’s aspect ratio.
 
It supports common active display area presets, including:
 
16:9
1.85:1
1.90:1
2.00:1
2.20:1
2.35:1
2.39:1
2.40:1
 
This is especially useful for people using wider screens, where normal 16:9 playback can leave you constantly adjusting projector zoom, lens memory, or display modes.
 
Some key features:
 
- Automatic black-bar / aspect-ratio detection
- Constant Image Height style resizing
- Handles variable aspect ratio content
- Designed for Android TV / Google TV devices
- Works well for projector and scope screen setups
- Dolby Vision / HDR playback support where supported by the device
- HD audio passthrough support depending on the device and playback chain
- Subtitle positioning designed to stay within the active display area
- Anamorphic lens support for 2.39:1 and 2.40:1 setups
 
I originally built this for my own home cinema setup because I wanted a simpler and more affordable way to get smart aspect-ratio handling without needing an expensive external video processor.
 
For Jellyfin users, the goal is for Aspecta to be used as an Android TV external player where that workflow suits your setup. You keep using Jellyfin as your media library/server, then hand playback over to Aspecta when you want automatic CIH / scope screen handling.
 
I’d be very interested to hear from other Jellyfin users, especially anyone using:
 
- NVIDIA Shield TV / Shield Pro
- Android TV projectors
- Google TV boxes
- Scope screens
- Anamorphic lenses
- 21:9 / vertical squeeze projector modes
- Dolby Vision or HDR media libraries
 
I’m still improving device compatibility and real-world testing, so feedback from serious Jellyfin users would be really valuable.
 
The app is available on Google Play as Aspecta Cinema Player.
 
Thanks everyone.  Happy to answer questions or hear how people are currently handling CIH / scope screen playback with Jellyfin.

[TIMFLIX1138]

What about 1.66, 1.37, 1.33 and other smaller width aspects? Not that Im quite a candidate for that but there is quite a lot of content out there new and old. Or aspects beyond 2.40 as well.

[kaynayz91]

What about 1.66, 1.37, 1.33 and other smaller width aspects? Not that Im quite a candidate for that but there is quite a lot of content out there new and old. Or aspects beyond 2.40 as well.

Great question! aspect ratios narrower than 16:9 fall into the same bucket as there wouldnt be information to crop top and bottom. aspect ratios wider than 2.40:1 fall into the same bucket, this is because our widest screen setting is 2.40:1. If a setting for a wider aspect ratio screen is requested we can easily implement that in our next release.