Netflix movies in "letterbox"

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Hello everyone; I have a question regarding watching movies from Netflix that I watch on my laptop. A lot of the movies are in “letterbox”, and some of them are full screen. Bear in mind, when I watch movies from Netflix on our flat screen, they are full screen. Can anyone give me an answer why? I have just started using openSUSE Gnome, and I have used Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, and a few others, but I get the same results. I have 8 gigs of Ram, and keep my systems updated constantly. Does it have something to do with the codecs? If so, what can I do about it?

Thank you very much! Dave :shame:

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Hi
So letterbox is the aspect ratio, on your laptop what resolutions are available, post the output from the command;


xrandr
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Thank you…my resolution is set 1366x768. (16x9)
I have lower standard resolutions that I have not used…
thanks

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I made an experiment with the lesser settings, and did not resolve the problem.

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Which browser are we talking about?
Is the Packman repo enabled?

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Netflix letterbox movies run normally here, with black sidebars.
Leap 32.3 Firefox 60.4.0 ESR from update repo.

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 04:46:03 +0000, Haoleboy wrote:

> Hello everyone; I have a question regarding watching movies from Netflix
> that I watch on my laptop. A lot of the movies are in “letterbox”, and
> some of them are full screen. Bear in mind, when I watch movies from
> Netflix on our flat screen, they are full screen. Can anyone give me an
> answer why? I have just started using openSUSE Gnome, and I have used
> Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, and a few others, but I get the same
> results. I have 8 gigs of Ram, and keep my systems updated constantly.
> Does it have something to do with the codecs? If so, what can I do about
> it?
>
> Thank you very much! Dave :shame:

Shouldn’t have anything to do with the codecs - but I’m not entirely sure
I understand your question.

What is the aspect ratio of your flat screen?

Not all movies are shot using the same aspect ratio, so it’s natural to
have black bars above/below to fill in the space that wasn’t in the
original format.

Jim

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root@debian:/home/dave# xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
1366x768 59.99*+ 39.94
1360x768 59.80 59.96
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
640x480 59.94
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
root@debian:/home/dave#

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Malcolm:

root@debian:/home/dave# xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
1366x768 59.99*+ 39.94
1360x768 59.80 59.96
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
640x480 59.94
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
root@debian:/home/dave#

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I find that pacman is NOT installed…and my browser Chrome…

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Jim;

I did not realize that it was normal for Netflix to do that. It sounds like that is just the way the movies are made. Thank you all for your comments!!
Dave:shame: