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Assume I have a *.mp4 video with an encoded resolution of 1280x720

Now I want to watch it on my (big) TFT monitor a bit larger in resolution 1680x946 pixel.

What I always can do is to double click the *.mp4 file and resize manually the VLC window with the mouse.
This is somehow tedious and unnecessary.
I can imagine that there is a built-in setting in VLC which tells the video player to always play this (or in general) video in a bigger resolution.

Or even better make it videoplayer independent by edit a MP4 header field and enter the target player resolution automatically to 1680x946
regardless of the embedded, encoded resolution.

Is this possible?

Thomas

Hit Ctrl + P to open prefs and click the radio button at the bottom to the left of the word "All".

In the opening menu left hand pane click Input / Codecs. In the right hand panel click the dropdown menu where it reads "Preferred video resolution" and choose 1080p. Save, exit and restart vlc.