Is there anyway to get 1920x1080 when sending screen to Chromecast

[TabGuy]

I often mirror my screen to Chromecast for apps that don't have a Chromecast option. I do this mostly for video. Well, Chromecast sends the entire screen not just the video portion. That means to fit the entire screen onto the TV (since the TV is 16:9 ratio) it has significant black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. And, on top of that Samsung has already put black bars on the left and right side to play it on the phone's screen. What I end up with is a 70" TV displaying about 40" TV's worth of video.

It's a real crappy experience, I gotta tell you. So, I can't find any way to get the resolution to 1920x1080 or any other way to tell Chromecast to only use a portion of the screen. You'd think in this day and age with high-tech this kind of crap wouldn't continue to plague us.

BTW, this isn't unique to Chromecast. Same thing happens if you attach the Note 10+ to a TV via an HDMI cable.

 

[Rukbat]

Chromecast casts the screen, not a portion of it. You'd have to get the picture to show as full screen on the phone first. HDMI is the same thing - it displays the whole screen.

High tech has nothing to do with it - a phone can't "recognize" which portion of the screen you want to see on the TV - you do that in the phone (if the phone is capable of doing what you want - you might want just the video of a YouTube site, or the video plus some of the comments that go with it, or that plus some of the users' comments - the phone can't decide that for you).

 

[TabGuy]

High tech has nothing to do with it

This is a simple technology issue. The ENTIRE world watches TV in 16:9 ratio. Samsung chose NOT to use that ratio for their phones. They should give us a method to see 16:9 on the phone so when it's cast it will be seen in the industry standard ratio. What the heck are they thinking?