Filling up my entire screen on a widescreen TV using VLC!!!!

[Guest]

I've searched through all the post here and my head is spinning, there is no definitve answer on how to do this: I'm trying to play a letterboxed xvid movie on my widescreen 50" tv and get black bar on top and bottom, can I crop them out so it fills my enitre tv display? if so how? I've activated the crop filter and tried a couple of resolutions but the video doesn't change, I'm not even sure what exact resolution I want.

I'm using VLC 0.8.4a on OS X

[dionoea]

The video menu should have a crop subitem when playing a video. (It allows on the fly croping)

[Guest]

hmm, I checked the video menu and see no option for this am I missing something? thanks for your help!

[DJ]

While playing a video you can right click on the player and select aspect ratio. Probably the best selection for a 16x9 wide screen, on your Wide screen TV will be 16x10 and should fill the entire screen.

I have found that most of the newer TV also have these features.

[jopie]

The video menu should have a crop subitem when playing a video. (It allows on the fly croping)

I'm really curious! How?
I'm trying to do so for quite some time, but no positive results so far.

Thanks for your response!

jopie

[dionoea]

In the wxwidgets interface : http://people.videolan.org/~dionoea/vlc-crop.png (Aspect ratio and Crop have the same options available). If that isn't available in the Mac OS X version you are using, try a nightly build from http://nightlies.videolan.org

[jopie]

Thanks dionoea!
The thing is: I'm using win xp sp2. The picture you showed seems like a Mac to me.
Isn't there a different solution? Like a command line interface option.
If so: what should be the right syntax?

Thanks in advance.

jopie

[Guest]

His picture is xp , I am sorry to say that the nightlies on OSX don't have this option either I've just tried the latest nightly feb-9th and the menu is the same one I posted above.

[jopie]

His picture is xp , I am sorry to say that the nightlies on OSX don't have this option either I've just tried the latest nightly feb-9th and the menu is the same one I posted above.

You're right. The picture is XP. I'm using the "classic environment" so I didn't recoginze the picture.
However there is no crop option in the menu, just as you stated.
A 'croptop' or 'cropbottom' command in the command line interface does not work. I still get the same uncropped stream.
I don't want a different aspect ratio (which is working very well via the menu when playing a video!), I just want to crop off some lines on top of the movie.

jopie

[dionoea]

the picture is linux... but windows and linux share the same interface so it shouldn't matter. Try to get a nightly build, maybe that's newer than i though ( http://nightlies.videolan.org )