Aspect ratio - possible to crop during transcoding?

Hi everyone,
Im just wondering, as black bars on 2,35:1 are driving em crazy - would it be possible to crop 2,35:1 both left and right side to stream 16:9 during transcoding?
I thought DAR="16:9" will do something similar, but no.

[Iveky]

would be nice option to add into profiles in future (not possible in current version)

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Yes, it would be great. Samsung dlna client is so poor, that I'm forced to watch 2:35-1 movies and 4:3 with black bars around them, like a savage ,)

[DenyAll]

@darmach. Not a Samsung user but usually there is some means on your remote to zoom 4:3 movies to fill the display. On my Panasonic for example, you can press the Aspect button on the remote to set it to "4:3 Full" - this then gets rid of the side bars, and the movie appears with the correct aspect ratio (there are still bars top and bottom, but this is needed if you want to display 2.35:1 on a 16:9 display).

@zip or Illico: at the moment Serviio transcodes these cases to 4:3 anamorphic video, with padding top and bottom to give the illusion of retaining the aspect ratio. Why was that done - did we try transcoding to 16:9 (with the appropriate padding). It just seems that would be simpler and would then allow the TV's zoom settings to be used to provide cropping etc (usually you get more zoom options for 16:9 sources than you do for 4:3).

Hi DenyAll - I know, last time I checked i was not tech-retarded ,)

Thats why I wrote that samsung player is so poor - this is when dlna player application is in focus (what happens when you switch from HDMI to network stream) you can use only modes available - implemented in it. And Samsung happened to forgot to implement any cropping modes in that piece of ... porly written software So I can show in original resolution, or stretch to fullscreen, o use 2 weird modes which scale image to smaller size on the center of the screen. Its a madnes...