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Hello,

The new VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax is awesome but the screenshots ignore the aspect ratio.

My video is 1440x1080. When I watch it on VLC, it displays it with the correct aspect ratio of 16/9, but when I take a screenshot, the image is in 1440x1080 instead of 1920x1080.

It's a new bug that didn't exist in the previous version.

Thanks !

I'm having the same problem, but I know what it is just not how to fix it.

For some reason dvds and files encoded from dvds will try to stretch the aspect ratio to fit the monitor, so instead of the image you get in the window you get a stretched image from the source video meant to match the shape of the monitor.

Good manual cap sizes recommended to me are
Full screen: 4:3 1024 x 768, 768 x 576, 640 x 480, 400 x 300
Wide screen: 16:9: 1600 x 900, 1024 x 576, 854 x 480, 800 x 450, 624 x 352

Or to find a way to select window size instead of source size. However I have no clue how to do this. Where you would find the settings to change caps etc. Theoretically you go to "Tools" then "Preferences", click "all" radio button at the bottom, then highlight "video" in the list above it and fart around in "Snapshots" on the right side? But I'm not having much luck.

On my laptop (Dell Windows 7 Home Premium) it automatically matched but on my new computer (Asus desktop Windows 8 with widescreen monitor) it is incredibly wonky.

Yes, known issue, reported already.
ticket 13862

Can you check with PNG?

Same problem with PNG.

Same problem with PNG.

I'm have the same problem with it for PNG caps too.

OK.

I'm having the same problem, but I know what it is just not how to fix it.

For some reason dvds and files encoded from dvds will try to stretch the aspect ratio to fit the monitor, so instead of the image you get in the window you get a stretched image from the source video meant to match the shape of the monitor.

Good manual cap sizes recommended to me are
Full screen: 4:3 1024 x 768, 768 x 576, 640 x 480, 400 x 300
Wide screen: 16:9: 1600 x 900, 1024 x 576, 854 x 480, 800 x 450, 624 x 352

Or to find a way to select window size instead of source size. However I have no clue how to do this. Where you would find the settings to change caps etc. Theoretically you go to "Tools" then "Preferences", click "all" radio button at the bottom, then highlight "video" in the list above it and fart around in "Snapshots" on the right side? But I'm not having much luck.

On my laptop (Dell Windows 7 Home Premium) it automatically matched but on my new computer (Asus desktop Windows 8 with widescreen monitor) it is incredibly wonky.

I've tried that and it still saves the caps as 720x480 instead of 853x480