Question / Help Cross device letterboxing

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Sunday

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Hey, I just recently started streaming and have been having so much fun making overlays and figuring out what looks the best and most effient. The only problem I've had is the letter boxes on the sides of my screen due to streaming at a 16:9 ratio with a 16:10 monitor.

I've been told that those with 16:9 monitors will see a flawless stream without the letterboxes, but when I watch on my phone or iPad (which view other streams fine) I see the bars on either side, just as I do on my monitor. I'm really just confused. Any insight?
 
Sunday said:
Hey, I just recently started streaming and have been having so much fun making overlays and figuring out what looks the best and most effient. The only problem I've had is the letter boxes on the sides of my screen due to streaming at a 16:9 ratio with a 16:10 monitor.

I've been told that those with 16:9 monitors will see a flawless stream without the letterboxes, but when I watch on my phone or iPad (which view other streams fine) I see the bars on either side, just as I do on my monitor. I'm really just confused. Any insight?
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can you post your logfile from the help menu? and so you have a past broadcast or some examples you can show?
 
When your base resolution is 16:10 and your source content is 16:9 you're going to get letterboxing. You can force stretch the source content out of its intended aspect ratio (hold Alt while resizing, looks gross), or run the source content at 16:9 instead of your monitor's native res (looks gross to you, fine to viewers), or fill in the empty space on the side of your scene with some kind of graphic/content, or set your base resolution to 16:10 so the black bars are actually empty space in the video player, as opposed to actual black pixels in your stream.

Example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3500800/example.png - 16:10 main source, filler text on the side.
Exanoke 2: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3500800/pirates.png - 4:3 main source, chat on the side.
 
Sapiens said:
When your base resolution is 16:10 and your source content is 16:9 you're going to get letterboxing. You can force stretch the source content out of its intended aspect ratio (hold Alt while resizing, looks gross), or run the source content at 16:9 instead of your monitor's native res (looks gross to you, fine to viewers), or fill in the empty space on the side of your scene with some kind of graphic/content, or set your base resolution to 16:10 so the black bars are actually empty space in the video player, as opposed to actual black pixels in your stream.

Example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3500800/example.png - 16:10 main source, filler text on the side.
Exanoke 2: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3500800/pirates.png - 4:3 main source, chat on the side.
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Thanks a lot. I checked ignore aspect ratio and now it looks fine for me, but guessing not for viewers.
 
In my experience "ignore aspect ratio" is more for when the content your game capture source picks up doesn't fit its own source dimensions, for example you see the red outline for your game capture source in the preview, and WITHIN the outline there are black bars, usually on all sides. The option will stretch the content to the source's actual dimensions in the preview, not break the source's original aspect ratio. You need to hold Alt to do that.
 
Sapiens said:
In my experience "ignore aspect ratio" is more for when the content your game capture source picks up doesn't fit its own source dimensions, for example you see the red outline for your game capture source in the preview, and WITHIN the outline there are black bars, usually on all sides. The option will stretch the content to the source's actual dimensions in the preview, not break the source's original aspect ratio. You need to hold Alt to do that.
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Yes, before choosing this option to ignore the aspect ratio I did see what you are describing. Black bars within the red lines on either side of the game. Does it make a difference that I'm running the game windowed?
 
No, windowed vs full screen doesn't matter to game capture. If you aren't running in borderless windowed mode (a window that matches your native resolution so it looks full screen even though it's not) why not configure the game to run at a 16:9 resolution window?
 
Sapiens said:
No, windowed vs full screen doesn't matter to game capture. If you aren't running in borderless windowed mode (a window that matches your native resolution so it looks full screen even though it's not) why not configure the game to run at a 16:9 resolution window?
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Okay.. I think I've got it setup now. Mine taking a look at this VOD? http://www.twitch.tv/imonlygayonsunday/v/5335171 I also fixed the audio and aligned the chat better and moved it to a more suitable spot prior to this stream.
 
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