The VideoLAN Forums

A lot of availibity, security concerns or compatibility questions depend on those points. Security? That's what Anti-Virus and Firewalls are for. As well as personal awareness & proper caution ; not just carelessly clicking and navigating recklessly. Availability and compatibility? Well, that o...

You're right, sorry about the mistake, i was mentionning the "Effects & Filters" menu. After some investigation about the way you want to use VLC, the only and best way to resize the video as you wish is to force a custom aspect ratio, by editing the configuration file. This file can ...

Hello there! For this specific request, i suggest you to go to "Tools" -> "Adjustments and Effects"-> "Video Effects" -> "Crop" and set a specific height or width ! You can also set a specific aspect ratio or set the video to adapt the size of the windows, bu...

I did a Web Search on that "YT-DLP" thing and still have no clue what the hell I was looking at or how to use it. You need to find that out by yourself. We can't discuss about this program here. There are some GUIs available for this program for making things easier. That has to be the st...

I've never heard of YT-DLP - is that a website or a program or what? It's a command line program which can download directly the H.264 stream. Yeah. I'm still no wiser as to what that is or how it works. Anything that involves some OG coding skills like "command line" stuff is beyond my c...

The Youtube videos are still available with H.264/AVC video codec. YT-DLP is what you're looking for but you won't get any help nor support about it on these forums. The YouTube videos themselves may have/use those old standard codecs like AVC, but that is not what gets applied when they are conver...

Does anyone know how (or even if) I can configure VLC to play video files within the strict parameters of 1920p wide and say, 800p-860p high? My wish is to get the old 4:3 videos (1440x1080p, 1920x1080p, etc) to be "shrunk to fit" to a display range not exceeding an aspect ratio of 1920p b...

You can use a portable version of VLC. For making VLC portable: download the ZIP or 7Zip archive of VLC, extract the archive to the folder of your choice, then create a folder named "portable" (without quotes) where VLC.exe is. Done. Cool - I will try that. Thanks! And to reiterate : Anyo...

Can I just DOWNLOAD and INSTALL (place in the appropriate directory folder) the necessary video codec[s] to work with my existing install? No, you need to update the whole VLC installation. But you can make a backup of your profile in case you want to revert back. Yeah, I fully planned to. I just h...

All versions of VLC can run on Windows XP (http://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/), the latest version 3.0.21 has a bug that has been fixed in the nightly build: https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc-3.0/nightly-win32/20240811-0223/ . All versions? That's funny... I tried to upgrade a few years bac...

Hey y'all, What I wanna know is how to force ALL videos, regardless of their aspect ratio (1280x720, 1280x533, 1920x1080, 1920x800, 640x480, etc), to playback within the parameters of a 1920x800 or 1920x810 resolution, WITHOUT skewing/stretching/distorting the aspect ratio of the videos. Playing a v...

Menu bar, I select Tools. Then Preferences on the dropdown list. THEN, click on "all" OK, I finally found "All". Under Show Settings in the left column. Made the change. Sorry for being so stupid. Harry You were/are not stupid, Harry. You just got lazy, half-assed, vague instruc...

Menu bar, I select Tools. Then Preferences on the dropdown list. THEN, click on "all" It might help people if you specified the fact that the "All" you are referencing is not on the +/- tree list, but in the lower left corner of the Preferences' dialog window, in a small box cal...

I LOVE THE HOLIDAY ICON!!! Having the option to disable it would be nice, though, but I hope VLC never gets rid of it entirely. I kinda like it. I've also wondered if other holiday icons might be considered... The VLC orange pylon with : - hearts and/or cupid for Valentine's... - shamrocks and/or po...

Not sure if this will mean anything to anyone now (2024), but under the "Video" tab on the main toolbar, there are options for "Fullscreen", "Always Fit Window", "Zoom", "Aspect Ratio", and "Crop". Maybe experimenting with these settings wi...