Handbrake: Blu-ray Disc to MKV Help! Video Stretching Issue!

[Mickey79]

Guys,

I'm having a problem converting from Blu-ray disc to MKV; Let me try and explain the issue.

I have the Blu-ray disc for the movie 'Prometheus', and I simply want to convert it to a 720p MKV for playback on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I'm using Handbrake to do so. Almost everything is working out prefectly fine -- except that the image is stretched in Height!!

The resolution of the movie on disc is 1920 X 1080, but it does have the Black Bars on top & bottom when you play it, to preserve aspect ratio. So in my "Picture Settings" in Handbrake, I put in "1280" in the Width and I select "Keep Aspect Ratio". It automatically gets the Height of 534. After this, I have tried all 4 Anamorphic settings --- None, Strict, Loose & Custom --- But with all 4, I get the exact same result. The Width is fine but the height is stretched to make it full screen (1280 X 720). I want to preserve the image ratio, including any Top & Bottom bars to preserve the aspect ratio, but somehow it won't do that. The result MKV is stretched in height no matter what I do -- and I don't get the top & bottom bars.

What do I have to do to get the correct image as the original movie, just reduced to 720p as opposed to 1080p?

Thanks!

[Baldrick]

Disable the Cropping. Set it to Custom and 0 0 0 0 instead of automatic.

[Mickey79]

Disable the Cropping. Set it to Custom and 0 0 0 0 instead of automatic.

Let me give it a shot!!

[Mickey79]

Disable the Cropping. Set it to Custom and 0 0 0 0 instead of automatic.

Baldrick -- That works!!! 100% Perfect - Exactly what I needed. Just to reconfirm, I should leave Anamorphic at "None", correct?