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Hi there,

Look, awesome programme, I love it so much.!!! I use it on my laptop, ACER Aspire 1350 I think, to watch dvds. Now, I hate it when the video is not in fullscreen, i.e gaps (black bars with no video image) across top and bottom of screen. I know about forcing aspect ratio to 4:3 but it doesn't seem to help with some dvd's. I think it is the 16:9 ones that do it. Is there no setting on VLC to automatically use all space available for video image??? I really wouldn't mind if I was losing a little bit of the edges of the screen (left and right) but I can't stand the black bars.

Sorry if this is a really stupid question with an obvious answer. I did search forums first but no joy. My brother has same problem on his desktop which has a much larger screen, but certain dvd's we both get this issue.

Much thanks in advance if someone can help me.

Kind regards,

Rob.kiwiiwik
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Is there no setting on VLC to automatically use all space available for video image???

No.

Well, there is the following solution that is meant to do what you wish, but it has side effects that are not very nice (especially when transitioning from one chapter to another in fullscreen mode)
--vout-filter="crop" --autocrop tells vlc to automatically detect back borders hardcoded in DVDs and removed them. vlc starts the video with these black borders, detects them and resizes without back borders within the first seconds.

--crop="4:3" tells vlc to cut the resulting video to adapt to your 4:3 screen (source aspect ratio is preserved)

Erwan10