Streaming videos (on Amazon Prime) - how to change the aspect ratio?

[CompVid]

Sometimes I find that Amazon Prime Video gets the aspect ratio wrong, mainly with older TV shows. Sometimes it squashes them too much, sometimes it stretches them too much.

I've tried fiddling with my PC's display settings (using Windows 10) but that never seems to work for the streaming video.

I did find a Firefox addon called Ultrawideo and that works, however I don't like that it has permissions to access your data for all websites. This seems way over the top.

So is there any other way to alter the aspect ratio, maybe a safe app or addon that doesn't access your website data?

[october262]

Sometimes I find that Amazon Prime Video gets the aspect ratio wrong, mainly with older TV shows. Sometimes it squashes them too much, sometimes it stretches them too much.

I've tried fiddling with my PC's display settings (using Windows 10) but that never seems to work for the streaming video.

I did find a Firefox addon called Ultrawideo and that works, however I don't like that it has permissions to access your data for all websites. This seems way over the top.

So is there any other way to alter the aspect ratio, maybe a safe app or addon that doesn't access your website data?

are you wanting to change the aspect ratio on your tv or computer ??

[davexnet]

Regarding the Firefox add-on, you could always create a separate FF profile and just use it for those videos

[CompVid]

Sometimes I find that Amazon Prime Video gets the aspect ratio wrong, mainly with older TV shows. Sometimes it squashes them too much, sometimes it stretches them too much.

I've tried fiddling with my PC's display settings (using Windows 10) but that never seems to work for the streaming video.

I did find a Firefox addon called Ultrawideo and that works, however I don't like that it has permissions to access your data for all websites. This seems way over the top.

So is there any other way to alter the aspect ratio, maybe a safe app or addon that doesn't access your website data?

are you wanting to change the aspect ratio on your tv or computer ??

My Computer.

[CompVid]

Regarding the Firefox add-on, you could always create a separate FF profile and just use it for those videos

Good idea, thanks. I'll look into that.

Of course if anything underhand was going on with the addon I guess that my Amazon account details would still be accessible.