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How much work would it be to add "4x" and "8x" size options to VLC's Video/Zoom menu? Screens are getting huge and I think these additional zoom levels would be appreciated, especially for older material like 320x240 and 480p. Custom auto-zoom levels depending on media size would...

I asked about this months ago, and the official answer was to use WMP. I think the unofficial answer is that commercial h.264 codecs (CoreAVC etc) are better at finding and using h/w acceleration than VLC's resident codec. EDIT: Sorry, meant to add we see a 15-20% cpu drop with all 2.x VLC versions ...

Lotesdelere, can you explain your last comment? Are you saying VLC 2.x doesn't bother looking for h/w acceleration on older h/w and/or OS's? It would explain much, e.g. why MPC-HC and WMP (and VLC 1.x) can easily handle 1080p H.264 on one of my systems (XPSP3/Abit IC7G/3.6GP4HT/NVGF7900GTS(AGP8x)), ...

Just copy/paste VLC's desktop shortcut (click once to highlight it, hit Ctrl-C and then Ctrl-V) and add the Quad command line switch to the new shortcut. If you don't use the Quad option more than you do use it, you might want to also add a command line switch to VLC's original shortcut, to set its ...

You know I'd bet 9 out of 10 VLC users would fail this test.