Torrents: ᴘ2ᴘ ꜰɪʟᴇ ꜱʜᴀʀɪɴɢ

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/dresoccer4 on 2025-07-29 17:13:50+00:00.

I've noticed that ~25% of my torrented video files end up severely cropped with the actual video shrunken in the middle with black bars on all sides (as shown in screenshot). It's hard coded this way. So when watching on a regular TV the video is much smaller since it's got shrunk in the middle.

I can't tell ahead of time if the video will be this way or from the torrent name. Anyone else run in to this issue, or know why they are like this? Don't understand why someone would do this, what are the pros to this method.

https://preview.redd.it/feojtf82ruff1.png?width=3435&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a366914037e6c6ca2a0a8eee80d9f295a8ff35c