DLNA and correct movie size i.e. not full screen 16:9

[vdeknock]

I tried a search and failed to find an existing question so am looking to see if anyone else has this issue.

I run two NAS boxes, one a QNAP which has Twonkymedia server running and the vortexbox with the miniDLNA. I have added a oppo DB-93 to the home theatre which has the ability to see network servers that use DLNA. The twonky server works and movies are played at the correct ratio rather that filling the 16:9 TV. When I use the vortexbox is appears to not be picking up the correct ratio and reverts to a full 16:9 screen view. Anyone got any ideas apart from moving all movies to the QNAP? I am trying to work out where the issue is. I also have a ATV2 and that has no issues apart from it hates full BRay rips as they are too large and you just get buffer issues. Would love for the Vortex to act the same as Twonky with the DB-93 and pick up the correct film size.

[vdeknock]

I would like to try a different DLNA media server to see if I can workout why the movie true screen size is not being detected by my Oppo-93. The PS3 media server has been modified and converted in the the Universal Media Server which can be found at this link http://www.universalmediaserver.com/ anyone able to give me directions/instructions on how to install this on a vortexbox?

[vdeknock]

It appears the issue might be the Sony TV - still can't work out why some workout why some DLNA systems are working and others are not but I expect it is all around configuration files. I found this link http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2956 which is another system that looks to be just as interesting and a bit PLEX like. Anyone what to have a go at installing Serviio - they have a free version and pro version which is all the same install.

The weird part is that the ATV2 using the Firecore media player works fine for all media apart from BluRay rips (just too much data for the ATV2 to handle). Oppo 93 plays they with no issues apart from the Aspect ratio issue. MiniDLNA works but is the most basis and low overhead of all systems.

[cburbs]

Not sure what you mean by "reverts to a full 16:9 screen view." Can you give a better example? Maybe a particular movie and what it does with twonky vs Mini dlna?

[enz01]

Probably doesn't help much but I'm streaming movies from a Vortexbox/miniDLNA combo to a Humax HDR-Fox T2 PVR, which is connected to a Sony TV. For what its worth, whatever aspect ratio the movie is encoded in is accurately reflected onto the TV (although, I guess, that most of the processing is being done by the Humax since, if the movie has, for example, an aspect of 2.35, I use the PVR to adjust it to a 'normal' aspect ratio on the TV)

[vdeknock]

After lots of reading and quite a few BRay rips using MakeMKV the issue was all mine and not the system. All works exactly as it should. Once you start with knowing exactly the aspect ratio of the movie I started to workout that a lot of movies are now shot at 1.85:1 (this is the USA std for widescreen) but on a 16:9 it looks fullscreen. I could not see the very small black bars on the TV and was thinking it was just stretching the movie to 16:9. Was made worse when I keep going thru my collection looking for why. A lot easier to start trouble shooting when you know all the information.

Can confirm that miniDLNA works exactly as it should. MakeMKV is so worth the license fee and one of the better additions to the vortexbox.

I got serviio working on my QNAP, still waiting for version 1.01 as a qpkg to be released but this is worth a look and is free for 90% of the features. It is better at getting metadata and providing this to DLNA systems so you can search and have other options rather than just a straight folder system with filenames.