Active height and display aspect ratio?

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Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Active height                            : 804 pixels
Active display aspect ratio              : 2.39:1

I just noticed the new MediaInfo is grabbing this information.
So it made me wonder about the aspect ratio shown in the OSMC skin.
Since all my files are remuxed from the Blu-rays the skin always shows 1.78:1 since Blu-rays are letterboxed (pillar boxed for 4:3).

@Chillbo, would the skin be able to access this “Active display aspect ratio” in the future?

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It could be, if the skin engine had an info label feeding off a library field populated with the info from the file data you’ve posted… I’m not aware anyone is actually working on this over at Kodi though :blush:

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Yeah, I figured it may be all on the Kodi/ffmpeg end of things.

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I tried MediaInfo 25.03 on my own makemkv rips but I’m not seeing this information. Was it added manually?

Edit: Ah, it requires that you enable the FFmpeg plugin in MediaInfo. Preferences > Setup > Advanced > Enable FFmpeg plugin

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It would be interesting to see how ffmpeg is generating this information and how it handles releases with variable aspect ratios like Top Gun: Maverick which jump back and forth between 2.39:1 and 1.90:1.

@Chillbo is there a line in an NFO file that the OSMC skin will read and prefer over what it can get from the files?

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There’s just the info labels from the Kodi skin engine any skin rely on. Nothing more specific than that, certainly not specific nfo lines, sry…