Added Android workaround

addon.py

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@
 import xbmcaddon
 import xbmcgui
 
+from imdb import getOriginalAspectRatio
+
 monitor = xbmc.Monitor()
 capture = xbmc.RenderCapture()
-myplayer = xbmc.Player()
+player = xbmc.Player()
 
 CaptureWidth = 48
 CaptureHeight = 54
@@ -112,8 +114,16 @@ def abolishBlackBars(self):
         xbmcgui.Window(10000).setProperty('blackbarsnever_status', "on")
         # notify(xbmcgui.Window(10000).getProperty('blackbarsnever_status'))
 
+        android_workaround = (xbmcaddon.Addon().getSetting(
+            "automatically_execute") == 'true')
+
         aspectratio = self.GetAspectRatioFromFrame()
-        aspectratio2 = int((capture.getAspectRatio() + 0.005) * 100)
+
+        if android_workaround:
+            aspectratio2 = getOriginalAspectRatio(
+                xbmc.getInfoLabel('Player.Process(VideoTitle)'))
+        else:
+            aspectratio2 = int((capture.getAspectRatio() + 0.005) * 100)
 
         _info = xbmc.getInfoLabel('Player.Process(VideoDAR)')
         _info2 = xbmc.getInfoLabel('Player.Process(videoheight)')

addon.xml

@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
-<addon id="script.black.bars.never" name="BlackBarsNever" version="1.0.4" provider-name="Clement Osumo">
+<addon id="script.black.bars.never" name="BlackBarsNever" version="1.0.5" provider-name="Clement Osumo">
 	<requires>
 		<import addon="xbmc.python" version="3.0.0"/>
 	</requires>
+	<requires>
+		<import addon="script.module.requests" version="2.20.0"/>
+	</requires>
+	<requires>
+		<import addon="script.module.beautifulsoup4" version="4.9.3"/>
+	</requires>
 	<extension point="xbmc.service" library="addon.py"/>
 	<extension point="xbmc.python.script" library="addon.py">
 		<provides>executable</provides>

imdb.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+
+def getOriginalAspectRatio(query):
+    BASE_URL = "https://www.imdb.com/"
+    HEADERS = {
+        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148'}
+
+    URL = BASE_URL + "find/?q={}".format(query)
+    searchpage = requests.get(URL, headers=HEADERS)
+
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(searchpage.text, 'lxml')
+
+    if soup.css.select('.ipc-metadata-list-summary-item__t'):
+        # we have matches, pick the first one
+        title_url = soup.css.select(
+            '.ipc-metadata-list-summary-item__t')[0].get('href')
+
+        URL = BASE_URL + title_url
+
+        titlepage = requests.get(URL, headers=HEADERS)
+
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(titlepage.text, 'lxml')
+
+        aspect_ratio_full = soup.find(
+            attrs={"data-testid": "title-techspec_aspectratio"}).css.select(".ipc-metadata-list-item__list-content-item")[0].decode_contents()
+        aspect_ratio = aspect_ratio_full.split(':')[0].replace('.', '')
+
+        return aspect_ratio

resources/language/resource.language.en_gb/strings.po

@@ -28,4 +28,8 @@ msgstr "Automatically remove black bars"
 
 msgctxt "#32003"
 msgid "Toggle status"
-msgstr "Toggle status"
+msgstr "Toggle status"
+
+msgctxt "#32004"
+msgid "Android workaround (requires internet)"
+msgstr "Android workaround (requires internet)"

resources/settings.xml

@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
 		            <close>true</close>
 	                </control>
                 </setting>
+                <setting help="" id="android_workaround" label="32004" type="boolean">
+                    <level>0</level>
+                    <default>false</default>
+                    <control type="toggle"/>
+                </setting>
             </group>
         </category>
     </section>