(hic/haec/hoc)@dysfun @gsuberland my parents have a cheap "smart" TV. If you play videos off USB it will ignore the aspect ratio and stretch them to 16:9, if you open the same files from an SMB share they will work correctly. The player is literally the same so I have no idea how they managed to do it, but by now I'm resigned to fact that people will *always* find a way to fuck anything up :/
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@_hic_haec_hoc @dysfun wow that is... huh. I wonder if reading from SMB is treated as streamed content, whereas USB is treated as local content, so they use different code paths.
or maybe there's just a stretch/zoom/letterbox option somewhere in the TV and it only gets applied to the USB content.