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Running Lion and vlc 2.0.2

is there a hot key available for the "magnification" function so that the multi step routine
>>Window...video filters...geometry...check box magnification/zoom...X out-to clear black box<<
can be bypassed and accomplished while a video is running and without obstructing the screen display?

And a reverse back, a "zoom out" stepwise to normal viewing to avoid
Window...Video filters...Geometry...uncheck box magnification/zoom...X out to clear the black box?

In order to go in and out of magnification, or as it is usually called "zoom" (but not in vlc as that refers to window size) requires 10 steps.

That's 10 steps to simply "zoom" in and out. Really like the program and appreciate the work, but no hotkey to "zoom" or "magnify" in and out on the fly is a frustrating lack of ease.
Thanks

John

Fully agree with your point,I have same problem. I find it amazing that a player that is so good in most respects lets itself down on this simple function.

Surely we are not alone in desiring this...........does nobody have an answer?

Do I really have to revert to a competatative player?

It would be great if someone said:
this is how you do it
or
it cannot be done
or
coming in 2.3
or just some response that understands what is being asked.

Using the z key does NOT address the question, changing the output does not help, it seems.
I did find that Control+E opens the video effects window so that brings us down to only 8 steps.
Also, the response of the "focus" and "distance seems a little squirrelly, ie, latent in response, to no response, to over or under response. Prob related to the interface?

Good player, getting better every time, but frustrating in this regard.
Help please

z

z

Thanks for the response, Jean-Baptiste, but you did NOT read what I wrote.
your answer

z

changes the size of the window, it does double the size, but that is NOT what the people in this thread, and similar threads are seeking.
Please read my original question again. Maybe you, too, are confused by the nomenclature. Zoom ("z") is NOT the same as magnification.
Thanks

John