2.40:1 BD's are windowed on a 29" superwide

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OK, Santa brought me a Dell 29" Superwide monitor for Xmas and while gaming is a joy on it, viewing BluRays is proving problematic.

No matter what I do, the picture is always windowed, ie black bars all round.

The screen is 2.4:1 and the BD's are the same, Iron man and Prometheus are 2 of the 3 I have tried (not sure on the other) no matter what I do I cant get them to fill the screen as they should.

The superwide previews on Netflix work fine, so Im stuck as what the problem is.

System...

Maximus Hero M/B
4790K CPU
8 Gig Ram
GTX 980 GPU
DP 1.2 cable

Please help me sort this very annoying problem...

Neil
 
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What program are you using?
Using something like Arcsoft, it's just as simple as right clicking and using smart zoom (Which also works on 16:9 content and crops it)
 
I found PowerDVD to be crap frankly.

Use Arcsoft and it'll solve your problems.

Although Blu-ray play back on PC is crap still. I've noticed in Arcsoft in one occasion that it wouldn't play one of my discs as it couldn't handle the splash screen. Had to use iDeer instead.

And then with Sarah Connor Chronicles, it just runs the full disc in one viewing (So all 4 episodes run one after another, which means if I watch one episode, I need to skip 40 minutes or so again :p)
 
neilwhiteley said:
Tried that mate, with no success
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http://mpc-hc.org/ + AnyDVDHD is 1000% certified to fill the 21:9 screen with BD either the actual discs or if you rip them to a hard drive as an MKV file.

Cyberlink PowerDVD is terrible I am using 13 it allows you to run the BD full screen on most movies if you have the full version of AnyDVDHD but not all as some newer BD refuse to fill the screen. Cyberlink aggressively enforce the Hollywood Studios HDCP DRM tokens in their software players to restrict fullscreen playback above 1920x1080 others do not this is why you need AnyDVDHD as it removes this artifical limit ;)

Mission To Mars (French Import BD I bought from amazon) on Media Player Classic HD X64
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This is @ 2560x1080 21:9 on my 34" LG UM65.

Avoid Cyberlink terrible customer service & support others make better products like MPC-HD which is free & has so many options I would bet £100m if I had it you could fill a 21:9 screen image with no black borders as it contains so many different scaling options if the movie is not even a 2.35.1 movie you could fill the screen with scaling options although the aspect ratio to me looks wrong others have tried it look for mrk posts here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18565786
 
Martini1991 said:
I've never needed to use Any DVD.
Arcsoft and Automatic Zoom does it.
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Unfortunately ArcSoft discontinued TotalMedia. Completely dropped licensing of new copies. I can confirm it did/does work but there is really no viable legal alternative that I can see for this. Netflix/Amazon works fine as well on downloadable media, as noted in my article on the 3440 x 1440 for games and movies. But for physical media (Blu-rays) ArcSoft's solution was great and quite unique - but sadly no more.
 
PCM2 said:
Unfortunately ArcSoft discontinued TotalMedia. Completely dropped licensing of new copies. I can confirm it did/does work but there is really no viable legal alternative that I can see for this. Netflix/Amazon works fine as well on supported media, but for physical media (Blu-rays) ArcSoft's solution was great but sadly no more. :(
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Oh Christ.

Blu-Ray playback on PC just took yet another step back.

Netflix on the Windows 8 app doesn't work at all, it just black bars the entire thing so I'm just left with a smaller video in the middle of my screen.

I've still got Arcsoft on the PC, and iDeer, except iDeer can't do the zooming.

Why does Blu-ray playback on PC have to suck. Why can't VLC just work simply.

Apparently there's ways to get VLC to work, but I've never been able to.
 
Martini1991 said:
Oh Christ.

Blu-Ray playback on PC just took yet another step back.

Netflix on the Windows 8 app doesn't work at all, it just black bars the entire thing so I'm just left with a smaller video in the middle of my screen.

I've still got Arcsoft on the PC, and iDeer, except iDeer can't do the zooming.

Why does Blu-ray playback on PC have to suck. Why can't VLC just work simply.

Apparently there's ways to get VLC to work, but I've never been able to.
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I know, it's really shocking and very disappointing. I'm a big fan of Blu-ray discs on the PC too. :(

For Netflix there is a Chrome extension called ‘Netflix Ultrawide Display Support’ that will provide the proper screen-filling experience on media designed for the UltraWide aspect ratio. So I'd use that rather than the Windows 8 app.
 
PCM2 said:
I know, it's really shocking and very disappointing. I'm a big fan of Blu-ray discs on the PC too. :(

For Netflix there is a Chrome extension called ‘Netflix Ultrawide Display Support’ that will provide the proper screen-filling experience on media designed for the UltraWide aspect ratio. So I'd use that rather than the Windows 8 app.
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I'll have to keep that in mind then cheers.

So how are we meant to play Blu-ray on PC once the current version of Arcsoft is no good anymore?
 
I can confirm that it works currently! :D
I've had the same issue with bluray discs since getting my LG 3440x1440.
I have literally just this moment finished downloading the torrent and installing Totalmedia. Ran the keygen as per instructions and have just popped in Gran Torino bluray to check it...
Zoomed to fit the screen without black bars or black box, no problem and it looks great!
Finally got me a working solution! ;)
 
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