Watching video with 21:9 display

[Kallakix2015]

I just picked up a 35' 21:9 aspect ratio PC monitor and I've had some problems watching online video. Most videos don't stretch that wide so you end up with the sides cropped. I downloaded two chrome plug ins to fix this for netlfix and youtube, but all other online video still have issues. I looked for a general plug in to change the settings for all the videos you can watch, but I couldn't find anything.

I tried running them through VLC media player instead, but that only worked with a few sites and youtube.

Is there a fix for this? I didn't expect so many issue from going wide screen instead of using a standard sized monitor.

Thank you.

 

[getochkn]

Well since 99% of current streaming media is 16x9, you should have expected problems of either side bars or it being super stretched and looking weird.

 

[Kallakix2015]

Maybe I should have expected that. But you would assume there would be work arounds for these kinds of things. If there are any plug ins or alternative video players that let you adjust the aspect ratio, that would fix all of this,

 

[firefoxx04]

You cant just stretch an image without distorting. A lot of my bluray rips play in 21:9 but mainstream stuff will not. 21:9 is great for gaming and multitasking. Its pretty bad for watching regular videos.

 

[Kallakix2015]

You cant just stretch an image without distorting. A lot of my bluray rips play in 21:9 but mainstream stuff will not. 21:9 is great for gaming and multitasking. Its pretty bad for watching regular videos.

I ran a load of youtube videos through VLC forcing the aspect ratio to 21:9 and they all looked fine.

 

[firefoxx04]

not without cropping something. You cant take a 16x9 image and turn it into a 21x9 image without putting black bars somewhere. Unless the video was zoomed or rendered in both resolution which i highly doubt it the case.


This image shows the difference plain as day http://www.web-cyb.org/images/lcds/16x9-vs-21x9.jpg

There is no magic to avoid black bars without zooming or stretching the image. Both of which are much worse, imo, than having black bars.

 

[Kallakix2015]

not without cropping something. You cant take a 16x9 image and turn it into a 21x9 image without putting black bars somewhere. Unless the video was zoomed or rendered in both resolution which i highly doubt it the case.


This image shows the difference plain as day http://www.web-cyb.org/images/lcds/16x9-vs-21x9.jpg

There is no magic to avoid black bars without zooming or stretching the image. Both of which are much worse, imo, than having black bars.

Not looking for magic, looking for a way to stretch or zoom the images, like the software that works on certain websites does.

 

[getochkn]

^^ Yup, either something is stretched or cropped or something, but you can't magically make the info there. It may looked "ok" to you, but it was probably stretched and you didn't noticed it but with the right content or compariing side by side, you would notice that everyone's head and body were fatter because they were stretched. 21:9 as said, is good for gaming, multitasking, video/cad work, or watching bluray 21:9 movies. Everything else is still a 4:3 and 16:9 world.

 

[Kallakix2015]

^^ Yup, either something is stretched or cropped or something, but you can't magically make the info there. It may looked "ok" to you, but it was probably stretched and you didn't noticed it but with the right content or compariing side by side, you would notice that everyone's head and body were fatter because they were stretched. 21:9 as said, is good for gaming, multitasking, video/cad work, or watching bluray 21:9 movies. Everything else is still a 4:3 and 16:9 world.

Why are you suggesting I'm looking for something that doesn't exist and is 'magic'? I said from the beginning I have plug ins for youtube and netflix. They zoom in and stretch the videos to make them full screen. I'm looking for the same thing, but for other websites.
I know the manipulated images are sometimes cropped as well, I'd rather that than have huge black empty spaces of nothing on my screen when a video is playing.

 

[Kallakix2015]

Packed the monitor up to be returned. No screen size is worth all those issues.