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So if you, for example, grab the right border and drag right it resizes horizontally as well as vertically?

I can resize to my heart's content as well but vlc still insists on leaving the black padding unless I resize with alt-1, alt-2, alt-3, etc. The padding serves no useful purpose that I can see. If the window can be resized with alt-# with the padding removed I don[t understand why it is such a big d...

I've tried assigning various keys/combinations under Preferences -> Boss Key and none of them have any effect. It doesn't matter if I am in full screen or windowed, pressing whatever I have assigned does nothing. Other keyboard controls (the default ones) work the way they should (play, pause, skip ...

Nope. Still behaving poorly. To see an example of how it should behave go to youtube and play any video with picture-in-picture. The pop up video window behaves like I want. I do not understand the huge negative reaction that my suggestion provoked.

I use my touchpad to quickly change the volume by two-finger swipe up/down. Occasionally I end up accidentally changing the playback position by slight movements left or right. Is there any way to disable just the gesture that changes the position, leaving the volume gestures functional? I'm running...

In case this got lost in all my bitching, VLC really is an awesome app.

OK. I'll stop insisting out of ignorance. Where can I get the latest source code? It's time to see for myself.

Fast and easy depends on your expertise. If you need some code to import 8000 analog and status points into an MSSQL database every five minutes I can code that up for you lickety split. If you need to monitor a generating station in real time and communicate with a SCADA mainframe, I'm your man. C+...

Take an example. I have a video that is 640x360. If I play it in a window with no controls (the CTRL-H option), the window is 656x399. Vlc adds 16 pixels to the width and 16 pixels to the actual video dimensions at zoom=1.0. If I use the ALT-4 zoom preset (zoom=2.0), the video displays as 1280x720, ...

One more time... Below (I hope) is a link to an image which will illustrate what I am trying to get across. Note that the only difference between the two video snapshots is that in the first there are black borders on the sides and in the second there are no black borders. The video is not cropped o...

Let's try a different approach. In my opinion (and I hope I am not alone in this), if an element in a user interface serves no functional purpose then it doesn't belong in the interface and should be removed. Black bars along the top, bottom, or sides of the window serve no purpose. They only take a...

Because my expertise was in real-time AGC/SCADA systems, not Windows/Mac/Linux. As a user, though, I think I am entitled to comment on the interface. In the same sense that I am not an automotive engineer, as a car driver I think It is reasonable to suggest that all cars, at the macro level, interac...

Exactly. If you want to see it done properly try BSPlayer (free version).

The issue is absolutely in no way about 16x9 content inside a 4x3 window or vice-versa. It's about making the display window just big enough to contain the video while preserving the aspect ratio. This is independent of whatever system is hosting the application. As for the principle of least surpri...

Alan Cooper (The Essentials of User Interface Design) says that a good interface is one that does what the user expects. On that basis, let's assume I have a window that is displaying a video that is NOT full screen, and the video completely fills the window. If I grab the right or left border and d...

I thought I made it clear that I am not talking about when playing video in full-screen. Obviously when you are playing full screen the video should be displayed (without distorting the aspect ratio) to either full width, or full height, with black borders added at either the top and bottom, or side...

I'm not trying to argue, and I'm not trying to suggest that this is a bug. That's why I posted in this thread. VLC is by far the best video player available, but I don't see how you can claim that it is common sense, when resizing the player window, to add black bars that are not part of the video. ...

I don't understand what point you are trying to make. If I resize the window, vlc adds black areas to the sides or top/bottom to maintain the aspect ratio. VLC knows the dimensions of the displayed video. It also knows the size of the display window (including the black bars). So why can't vlc resiz...

I don't see why trimming the black borders would change the aspect ratio. I can trim the black borders manually by just grabbing the bottom right corner, or the bottom side and moving it, and the aspect ratio is preserved automatically. But why should I have to do this manually when vlc is capable o...

I'm still not getting my point across. Let's assume, for the sake of simplicity, that the display consists only of the video window. No menu bar, no title bar, no status bar. Just the video window. Now let's pick some numbers. Let's say I'm watching a video that is 1280x720. I want to see it larger,...

z, SHIFT-Z don't trim borders - just cycle through preset zooms

CTRL-SCROLLWHEEL would be more flexible and intuitive

When manually resizing the vlc player window, aspect ratio of the window is not preserved (black areas are added at the edges). It would be nice if either the resizing automatically removed the black areas, or a hotkey function could be added to trim the black borders. There was a player I used year...

I ran sfc. Not sure what result I was hoping for but it didn't report any problems. Of course, it only finds the ones it looks for. Everything seems to be running fine for now in any case.

I presume it was because by renaming the original installation folder there were no files to be overwritten during the installation. As far as the installer was concerned (except for preferences/cache) it was doing a clean install.

No no no no no! I did NOT rename the installer. I renamed the folder where my 3.0.12 version was installed. Then I had to jump through hoops later to delete it once 3.0.15 was installed (access denied messages).