Was wondering if there was a way to change the screen ratio from 18:9 to 16:9 when casting video from my Pixel 2 XL to the TV. My S8+ had that option, but don't see an option my new phone. Thanks.
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I want to watch YouTube videos from my 18.5:9 phone on my 16:9 (non-smart) TV. When I connect the phone with a standard USB-C to HDMI adapter, it mirrors the screen on the external display, but it zooms out so that the 18.5:9 aspect ratio is preserved, with black bars on the sides (portrait) or top and bottom (landscape) filling the empty space. When I watch a video in full screen on YouTube, the screen is still mirrored in the 18.5:9 ratio. When it's in landscape, that means there are black bars on the sides on the phone's display (because 18.5 is "wider" than 16), but on the external display, it means there are black bars on ALL sides!
Is there a way to either...
Make YouTube zoom onto the video so that it actually fills the 16:9 display properly...
or...
Make the S9 (presumably S8 is the same) output its display as 16:9 natively? EDIT: to clarify, can you force it to crop down to 16:9 on the actual internal display, so that when it mirrors to the external display, they're both in 16:9?
As one possible example of this working properly, VLC will automatically go into some sort of screen-casting mode when connected via HDMI, where the phone's built-in display only shows playback controls, while the external display shows the video, properly fit to the external display with no apparent cropping or zooming. (when the source video is 16:9, at least!)
Tried using YouTube Vanced instead of the original YT app?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-youtube-vanced-edition-t3758757
Didn't work, unfortunately.
There are settings to ignore screen resolution in Vanced
Those just seem to allow the phone to output higher resolutions than the internal display is capable of; it doesn't actually change the aspect ratio of the output display...
Hello everyone.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S9 and when I try to screen mirroring the phone to a 16:9 tv, using a HDMI cable or through wifi using Chromecast, I have black bars on the top and on the bottom of the 16:9 screen since the screen aspect ratio of the phone is 18:5,9.
If I use the Smart View feature of phone to do screen mirroring, the app has a floating button where I can change settings of phone to customize the mirroring, including change aspect ratio of the phone screen to 16:9 to best fit on the TV screen without black bars.
See images attached. Only in Portuguese Brasil (sorry).
My phone is not rooted so I think it is possible to develop an App that changes aspect ratio of phone without root (at least on Samsung devices).
To help developing, I extracted Samsung Smart View apk of my phone to help on knowledge of the function used to change aspect ratio included in App.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JrTNLTZZjItIJhYnDJHtUM7XMDHgXWCp/view?usp=sharing
Help is needed.
Thanks.
Hello xda members!
I need to have different screen ratio (16:9) working on an app. It's because some apps aren't very compatibile with 18:9 screen ratio (image is displayed on whole lcd but it's stretched a little or very blurry). Is there any app that changes the resolution or ratio in a specific app? I know I'll have a black bars on the sides, when I'll change it to 16:9. Btw I'm using HavocOS.
Hi, I installed SwitchRoot and docked it. But the Picture on my FullHD TV is very pixelated. Is it because the switch runs 720p in portable mode?
My TV reports the Resolution as 1920x1080 60hz.
Is there a way to force it display a sharp 1920x1080 image without pixelation when docked ?
uigger said:
Hi, I installed SwitchRoot and docked it. But the Picture on my FullHD TV is very pixelated. Is it because the switch runs 720p in portable mode?
My TV reports the Resolution as 1920x1080 60hz.
Is there a way to force it display a sharp 1920x1080 image without pixelation when docked ?
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I have the same issue, but you are clearly in the wrong device section.
As we all know this phone has an aspect ratio of 2.22:1 and we can't watch in this full resolution because most videos and ganes are in 16:9 ratio and some in 2:1 which leaves some black bars on the ends. What I would like to ask is if there is anyway we could fully utilise the display and watch or play in the entire screen resolution or in the 2.22:1 ratio. Edit viewing ratio manually in youtube netflix etc.. and some games
Well what I do sometimes is expand it manually on my N10+.
With different aspect ratios sometimes you need to adapt. At least use a browser that keeps the end bars black. The Samsung browser is my primary vid viewer.