Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:32 pm by atc98092
The DLNA server is streaming your media. It's not where you would normally watch the media. So exactly what are you using as your player? A Smart TV? Blu Ray player? Streaming media player (Roku, Fire TV, Shield)?
In general you shouldn't need to mess with the screen aspect ratio for your videos. If the media is widescreen, it should fill the screen left and right, while the top/bottom may have bars depending on the aspect ratio of the media itself. But if you're using the TV's aspect button to zoom in a 4:3 image, you're going to cut the top and bottom off the image, which could remove the visible captions. Also, if you're zooming in a 2:35:1 image to fill the 16:9 TV display, again you're cutting off the bottom of the image, and that's where the media producers have placed the captions.
I believe you are using the TC aspect button incorrectly. You should be using it rarely, if at all. I have a few 16:9 DVDs that were authored incorrectly (it wasn't created as an anamorphic image), and I end up with bars around all four sides. If I zoom in to fit the sides, yes the captions disappeared off the bottom. My solution was to replace the DVD version with a Blu ray version, which was authored correctly.
Dan
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