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Old 14th October 2015, 09:53   #631  |  Link
pharaoh
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Wow! Thanks for all that. I'm learning a lot! Give me a few days to play with it, and I'll post my learnings.

Update: I have good news. SAR did the trick.
1) Deselect "half"
2) Add "--video-filter resize:1920,2160,2:1,method=lanczos" to the x264 parameters
3) Select level 5.0
The resulting file plays at the correct aspect ratio on the Samsung TV. I have confirmed that the TV ignores the display size in the header and can not ignore the SAR value in the video stream.

Only one small problem remaining - although MKVtoolnix shows the stereoscopy=3 (actually means 4, I guess), the TV does not recognize the file as 3D. If I encode T&B HALF and don't resize per the above, the TV recognizes the file as 3D and automatically changes to T&B mode. Importantly, I can change between 2D and 3D at the click of a button. With the T&B FULL file, 3D mode is not automatic (I can still select T&B manually) and the 3D->2D option is not available. With the tools I have (mkvtoolnix), I can't see the difference between the two files expect for the resolution. Any clues?

Thanks again!

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