Video not filling the screen in XBMC

Question

I have XBMC running on a win 7 machine and I can't get it to totally fill the screen. There is always, on all media files, black bars on all four sides.

any idea what I can try?

Answer 1

It sounds like you have the device set to "center" images and keep aspect ratio. You probably want to look into setting it to "stretch/zoom" to fill screen.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Aspect_Ratio

Options are:

KEEP Aspect ratio will be kept, and the image will be scaled down or up so that it fits inside the box, with transparent bars either side if the ratios are not the same.

STRETCH Aspect ratio is not kept - the image will be stretched so that it exactly fits the box.

SCALE Aspect ratio is kept, and the image is scaled up so that it fills the box, with any portions that lie outside the box being cropped off.

CENTER Aspect ratio is kept, and the image is left unscaled, centered within the box. It may be cropped if the image is larger than the box, or may have a transparent border if the image is smaller than the box.