Season 4 is shot in glorious 2.00:1 aspect ratio. Your TV is 16:9. To remove the cinematic letterboxing (just like Bonnet removes your possessions):
You’ve just ripped your Outlander Season 4 Blu-ray. You have 13 episodes of muddy colonial roads, fiery standing stones, and Roger Mac’s anguished face at 50 gigabytes each. The raw .mkv file from MakeMKV is beautiful but unwieldy. You need to tame it. outlander s04 ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i outlander_s04e05_mountains.mkv -vf "zscale=transfer=linear,tonemap=hable,zscale=transfer=bt709,format=yuv420p" -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow fraser_ridge_sdr.mp4 Result: The blue ridge mountains actually look blue. Season 4 is shot in glorious 2
ffmpeg -i ian_stays.mkv -ss 00:45:30 -to 00:52:10 -c copy ian_mohawk_chapter.mkv (No re-encoding. Fast as a tomahawk.) fiery standing stones