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Are there some simple formulas available for this? Here's an example. I'm running VLC on a Mac Mini with a fairly standard NON-widescreen 15 inch LCD. I have an MPEG2 video. Using GSpot I get 3 different aspect-ratios: Storage Aspect Ratio (SAR): 1.782 (41:23) Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) 0.748 Display ...

My problem is doing it from within the VLC plugin. It maintains aspect ratio and doesn't want to let me put in weird values. Real world scenario: 15 inch LCD running at 1024x768 showing a MPEG2 video at 4:3 aspect ratio will play nicely fullscreen with no bars around it. Now, stick a banner across t...

I'd really like the ability to force the video into whatever aspect ratio I choose by simply resizing the window. mplayer and Media Player Classic are both capable of this but except for a very well hidden option for Mac OSX, I've been unable to find this option in either Windows or Linux. I'm worki...

Quovodis, I need "stretch to fit" functionality (ignoring aspect ratio essentially). After alot of searching through the forums and google, the only thing I ran across that seemed to get the job done was by using the command line and launching VLC with the --aspect-ratio setting using a cu...