Make fullscreen mode honor size settings?

[TylerL82]

Is there any way to get VLC's precise size settings (Adv. Settings, Video Width/Height) to work in full screen mode?

Basically, on a 800x600 screen, I'd like an anamorphic DVD to keep its 480-pixel height, and scale horizontally past the borders of the screen (effectively cropping out 27 pixels on each end).

It works nicely in windowed mode. All happy and slightly cropped.
Once I go into fullscreen mode, the video scales down.

Is there any setting tweak I'm missing here?

[The DJ]

You need to use a cropping filter to CUT off the edges of the movie. VLC displays what is actually there in fullscreen, and it displays it all. (in windowed mode it does too, but it actually plays the video outside your monitor view. In fullscreen it doesn't allow to do that. (with good reason). You can use a "cut"(crop) filter to actually remove that part of the video. Then it won't be displayed in fullscreen.

[TylerL82]

I was hoping that a static height could apply to both 4:3 and 16:9 videos.

Basically, I have a 800x600 LCD projector and a 16:9 projection screen.

I'd want all videos to scale to 480 pixels tall - regardless of their ratios - and have borders cropped if need be.

Pictures might make this make more sense:
4:3 - http://www.toonamiarsenal.com/misc/lf/4by3.jpg
16:9 - http://www.toonamiarsenal.com/misc/lf/16by9.jpg

There's no way to override fullscreen's, well, fullscreen behavior?

Even windowed mode would work if there was a way to draw the video window without a titlebar...

[The DJ]

No this is not possible at the moment. But you can of course implement it if you want it