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I really like the ability of Media Player Classic by which we can increase the length and width of the movie being played instead of just setting an aspect ratio and zooming. I see that MPC is also under an opensource license so maybe someone can port the code to VLC. Please correct me if I am missing something here. And please support the post if u like the suggested feature.

Use Crop.

Crop will only scale the movie using our own specified *aspect ratio*. This way some part of the movie goes out of screen and we will not be able to see it. Surely this is not the end result I wished....

In my method we will see the entire image but it will be stretched out like a photograph taken being elongated(without increasing the width accordingly).

Using zoom, crop and aspect ration in VLC, you can achieve that.

Surely it can be much more simpler. Imagine using ur direction keys to control the length and width of the movie being played. In MPC we use the keypad to control it. It is much simpler to understand.

And if we press the same keys while holding down the control keys, the movie gets displaced accordingly. Please if u can, try MPC and compare it with VLC. Surely getting it won't be a problem as it is also under GPLv2 license. It is located here <http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli2/> It is also distributed with the klite codec packs.

VLC and MPC architectures are different. We just cannot copy code from MPC into VLC. I can add some width and length controls to Direct3D output when I add the shader code to it.

I tried to resolve a similar problem. I have a 16:9 (or so) movie that for some reason has vertical black bars on the left and right, and it is also stretched vertically. In VLC, I need to crop the image, and then adjust the aspect ratio. However, after cropping the image, the aspect ratio function adjusts the original resolution's aspect ratio, not the cropped resolution. So I have no way to correctly watch this video in VLC. None of the aspect ratio presets will reduce the vertical size of the picture. The video's resolution is 848x358 (the black bars are each about 100 pixels wide).