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Hello,

I am trying to run VLC from the command line and have some specific requests for the playback. I would like for the video to be centered and sized to half of the screen size, with the rest of the screen black. I started with the -f command, but the video was too large, so I added the --zoom command. This does scale the video properly, but the video is not centered. Can anyone give me the correct set of commands that would give me the layout that I need?

Here's the list of commands I have so far: "vlc.exe --no-video-title-show -I dummy -f --zoom .5 <path to video>"

Thanks!

You can only do that with VLC 1.0.0

OK, I tried those commands with 1.0.0, but the video did not scale, it filled the entire screen. Can you tell me the combination of command line parameters to use, or point me to any documentation that has these listed for version 1.0.0?

I see that I can press the 'o' key to scale the video back to its original size; however, what I need is for the video to be half the screen size with no user interaction, only the command line parameters...is this possible?

--no-autoscale

Thanks for getting back to me; however, using the --no-autoscale option leaves the video too small in most cases...what I really need is to be able to scale the video to take up half of the screen, regardless of resolution - centered of course, and with the rest of the screen black. Is this possible?

So far, no.