I would love a feature in your skin that limits the UI to the height of the aspect ratio of a movie (without black bars).
I have a projector and I “mask” the movie so that only the movie area is visible on the screen. A 1.77:1 movie is not masked (like on a normal TV). But if I watch any wider format, like 2.35:1 I don’t want the UI to appear in the black bars but only within the movie area because the black bars are outside of the screen (masked). This is a different approach to the OSMC widescreen skins.
The estuardy mod V2 has this feature but completely manually. If activated you have a small projector icon in the pause menu of the player where you can switch ascect ratios. It would be perfect if this could work automatically. But even manually is ok. So there is no need to scale anything. Only the area of the UI should be limited.
Did you check out our scope skin that offers vertical masking - also automated via file name tagging to some degree? The OSMC Skin
I think you are asking the same as this Auto Aspect Ratio possible?
Sorry if someone else requested the same thing - I will check out the scope skin with name tagging - didn’t try that yet.
I will try to rename my files in tinymm with this expression:
${movie.originalFilename;replace(.mkv,)}.AR${aspectRatio}.
Hope this is ok?
Just keep in mind it only supports a few aspect ratios - it’s impossible to cater for all there are. Best to create a renaming logic that adds the closest match to the file name.