DLNA movies not playing full screen on TV

thanks - the original ratio is the same as a DVD - which is why I dont understand why it has borders all alround it

The movie played is just the VOB from the DVD played over DLNA - so it should occupy the same screen size I would have thought

is there anything that can be done to alter this or is it a limitation of DLNA / Samsung TV ?

thanks

I have the same problem...

It may be that while the video is HD, th codecs that are being used aren't 1080p. While the television tuner will take a 480 display and enlarge it to show on the entire screen, the DLNA will show the resolution as it is, which can create this result.

The only other thing that could cause black borders would be an encoding issue where it was encoded in 16:9, and shown in 4:3. From what I read, it didn't sound like this was something either of you might have done, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

--HDTech

Seriously...
i am stuck here in Singapore which probably a few decades behind with firmware updates on the LED TV, so please advise: is there already will there be a firmware update which allows to scale/stretch content from the USB stick/DLNA server to fullscreen?
Keeping the aspect ratio is a nice option. But so would be "FULLSCREEN". After all I love my 46" real estate...

There's an unofficial update for the LExxB650 which proves the fix is simple. If you complain to Samsung, along with enough others, they MIGHT listen, especially if you decribe it as a fault, rather than a lack of features

It's in my opinion not acceptable that all DVD source movie's are not full screen.

I own the LE40B650T2P.

SAMSUNG has to change this in the firmware, i don't want to hack the Firmware to enable things that has to be work as default.

For other source than upnp we have also more screen size options but not for DNLA.

Also it's bad that the codecs onboard does support all important ones, .VOB support is there but NO .IFO support????????

This meens for me, NO subtitle with DVD source and no option to select audio stream.

SAMSUNG please, please fix this for us.

The hardware can do this all, the lancard is in the LCD, please give us the most used codecs.

Thank you,

Regards
Michael from the Netherlands.

this VOB file is not playing to full screen on my TV, even when:

DVDPatcher shows:

bit rate: 7500000 bits/sec
frame rate 29.97 frames/sec
size: 720x480 pixel(2)
aspect ratio: 16:9

why is this still showing small on the samsung tv?

720x480 is a 3:2 aspect ratio, so will not fill a 16:9 screen. The point of this thread is that the TV doesn't act on the embedded AR information.

but the same DVD fills the entire screen (16:9) when played thru a locally attached DVD player. how?

There are more scaling options for HDMI and other directly-connected sources. Those options are not available in Media Play.

There are a number of threads on this, where the source material is 16:9 but the pixel ratio is not - e.g. DVB-T 720x576 is 5:4. Samsung has not allowed for this on streaming, although it is very common, at least in Europe.

after many hours of fidling with this to try and get it to work - my suggestion is ditch dlna it just doesnt do a good job buy a PC and connect it via HDMI and play through the PC using Media Centre or similar - total control of the screen size, no waiting for buffering and no annoying dlna

I'm now ripping MPEG4 to 1920 x 1080 resolution and it fills the whole screen.

The joke of it is, that when ripping, you effectively have to upscale the DVD resolution to match that required by the TV. And that takes much longer on my PC!

But, until a firmware update fixes zooming for smaller resolutions, thats what I'll be doing using Nero.

i am ripping my DVD collectin to HDD using DVDfab. not sure what codes it is using but on my Win 7 PC powerdvd plays it fine - FULL SCREEN.

But,
when i stream using TwonkeyMedia Server to samsung 55" led B7100 TV, it does not play full scree??? original size is very small and fit produces only a slightly bigger image which does not fill the screen.

can anyone help?
thx.

A member from Twonky pitched in and it was a Twonky bug.

Did you ask on the Twonky forums?

can you advice plz.?

The Samsung tech/software engineers are aware of the issue for a long time now.

I don't understand why they didn't have it fixr already.

Samsung DLNA TV are there over a year by now, non does have the VIDEO_TS.ifo and VIDEO_TS.BUP codec support.

Not full screen and no subtitle support when you play a DVD-rip to VIDEO_TS. Thats a bad thing.

When do they learn.

Samsung tech, -like allways- you guys are talking bullocks. THAT is the big mishap from the samsung DLNA implementation. Thers already a few websites that have shwon that these aspect ratios are indeed possible when using dlna video by modding firmware. It is THE missing feature next to FFW FFBW and skip.

All well within the dlna properties and all well within the TV's possibilities, but Samsung insists of ignoring or ridiculing this feature request.

I promise you 10% uplift of revenu worldwide on TV sales within 6 months when you apply the DLNA feature in such matter that is usable as a media streamer!

Now get to work and make Samsung buyers happy!

Did you get an incident number? Reporting it at 1-800-SAMSUNG?