Question / Help How to fill black bars on stream with chat and ect

[s00pahFr0g]

Thanks for taking a look and helping me out.

I've recently been working on getting a good set up for streaming. I've found that twitch only works in aspect ratio 16:9 and my monitor/tv doesn't work in that. I'm pretty sure it's 16:10. I've done quite a but of searching and tried a few of the possible solutions like running in a 16:9 resolution and these didn't help me. One of the more common suggestions was to fill the black bars with chat and/or other things. I've figured out how to get the chat transparent in the stream using the BetterTTV chrome app and it looks fine but I can't get it to move into the black bars. It just moves to the edge of the game screen or if I drag it out of the stream preview window it disappears altogether. I'm streaming hearthstone if that makes any difference. Anybody know what I can do to get those black bars covered?

Thank you in advance

s00pahFr0g

 

[Lain]

The black bars are not something that exist, instead, they are empty space due to twitch centering your image in its aspect-ratio locked little web viewer. You shouldn't be too concerned about it 16:10 isn't a huge ratio difference.

Just manually set your base resolution in video settings to a 16:9 video resolution such as 1920x1080, center your source, and then put stuff on the sides if you wish.