Stretch Video to Fill Screen

[BHC]

Hello,

I am looking for the right combination of settings to get VLC to automatically stretch any video, of any aspect ratio, to fill the entire screen. (At least when in full screen mode). I do not care how much the video gets stretched or distorted - I just don't want to have any black bars on the sides of the video.

The reason (if anyone cares) is because I'm using VLC as a media player to watch videos on my Plasma TV, and my understanding is that black bars can result in uneven phosphor aging.

I am using VLC Media Player 1.0.5 Goldeneye, on Windows XP SP2.

Thanks,
Bill

[VLC_help]

I think that might be little problematic since some content like anamorphic DVD videos might have the black part encoded to video itself. Because of that is quite difficult to get one setup that would work with all videos.

Crop, zoom and aspect ratio settings can be used to remove all black from video.

[BugHunter]

set;
--width=W, --height=H and --aspect-ratio=W:H

True that you cannot filter out the black bars from the video stream, but these parameters will keep VLC from adding black bars to maintain the aspect ration in a given video window.