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Hi,

when I watch movies I like to remove the black bars by zooming the video to fill the screen (without deforming the image) usually I do this by pressing the C key which crops the video, but for some reason I often encounter video files where this does not work properly.
Instead of the cropped image filling-to-fit the screen it just sits cropped in the middle:

https://imgur.com/a/TGqZIHC

What I want, is when the player is in full screen mode, for the video to be zoomed in enough to remove the black bars and fill the screen. I don't get why for some video files cropping zooms the video in and for others it doesn't.


Thanks

You right click and select full screen. You have to turn off the borders or frame in the control panel of VLC

This is a long standing issue with some files which is still awaiting for a fix.

There is a setting to fit to the shortest dimension rather than the longest, in VLC 4.0. obviously this will cause the video to be cropped if its aspect ratio does not match that of the window.

Now if the file is recorded with black bars inside the video, VLC can't remove them automatically. In that case you have to set the crop ratio whilst playing that file.

Here is a sample file which exposes the issue:
https://upload.disroot.org/r/9PFtYJCh#9 ... cdnpOznTI=

The resolution is 16:9 with a 2.35 movie so it has horizontal black bars. Classic, normal and usual.

Play it with VLC at zoom x1 -> no problem, there are only horizontal black bars.
Play it with VLC at fullscreen -> no problem, there are only horizontal black bars.
Play it with VLC at zoom x2 -> now there are also vertical black bars added on the sides.

Why ?

Other report:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 65#p526965


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