Encoding 4:3 film
The encoding guide states: The dimensions vary on a title-by-title basis depending on the source material and the target aspect ratio for the encoding (e.g. 4:3 or 16:9). Content should always be...
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"filmgeek" wrote:
Is that how it works?
I think so. The key is to keep the aspect ratio native to the video, not the screen resolution (i.e., don't encode letter/pillar boxing into the video). Technically, the Roku could probably play your 2k film correctly without you scaling it first, but you'd be wasting a lot of unnecessary bandwidth (and probably overworking the Roku's decoder/scaler).
