problems fitting dvds to screen. Newbie, please help me :)

[kiwiiwik]

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.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You cannot, but use the 'a' hotkey!