VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

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VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 29 Apr 2015 20:21

Hello,

The new VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax is awesome but the screenshots ignore the aspect ratio.

My video is 1440x1080. When I watch it on VLC, it displays it with the correct aspect ratio of 16/9, but when I take a screenshot, the image is in 1440x1080 instead of 1920x1080.

It's a new bug that didn't exist in the previous version.

Thanks !

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Re: VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

Postby glazedmacguffin » 29 Apr 2015 21:19

I'm having the same problem, but I know what it is just not how to fix it.

For some reason dvds and files encoded from dvds will try to stretch the aspect ratio to fit the monitor, so instead of the image you get in the window you get a stretched image from the source video meant to match the shape of the monitor.

Good manual cap sizes recommended to me are
Full screen: 4:3 1024 x 768, 768 x 576, 640 x 480, 400 x 300
Wide screen: 16:9: 1600 x 900, 1024 x 576, 854 x 480, 800 x 450, 624 x 352

Or to find a way to select window size instead of source size. However I have no clue how to do this. Where you would find the settings to change caps etc. Theoretically you go to "Tools" then "Preferences", click "all" radio button at the bottom, then highlight "video" in the list above it and fart around in "Snapshots" on the right side? But I'm not having much luck.

On my laptop (Dell Windows 7 Home Premium) it automatically matched but on my new computer (Asus desktop Windows 8 with widescreen monitor) it is incredibly wonky.

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Re: VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 May 2015 19:56

Yes, known issue, reported already.
ticket 13862

Can you check with PNG?
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Re: VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

Postby VLCFanNumber1 » 02 May 2015 21:09

Same problem with PNG.

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Re: VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

Postby renegadeximpala » 03 May 2015 05:03

Same problem with PNG.
I'm have the same problem with it for PNG caps too.

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Re: VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 04 May 2015 14:50

OK.
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Re: VLC screenshots ignoring aspect ratio (VLC 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett WhetherMax)

Postby renegadeximpala » 10 May 2015 20:17

I'm having the same problem, but I know what it is just not how to fix it.

For some reason dvds and files encoded from dvds will try to stretch the aspect ratio to fit the monitor, so instead of the image you get in the window you get a stretched image from the source video meant to match the shape of the monitor.

Good manual cap sizes recommended to me are
Full screen: 4:3 1024 x 768, 768 x 576, 640 x 480, 400 x 300
Wide screen: 16:9: 1600 x 900, 1024 x 576, 854 x 480, 800 x 450, 624 x 352

Or to find a way to select window size instead of source size. However I have no clue how to do this. Where you would find the settings to change caps etc. Theoretically you go to "Tools" then "Preferences", click "all" radio button at the bottom, then highlight "video" in the list above it and fart around in "Snapshots" on the right side? But I'm not having much luck.

On my laptop (Dell Windows 7 Home Premium) it automatically matched but on my new computer (Asus desktop Windows 8 with widescreen monitor) it is incredibly wonky.
I've tried that and it still saves the caps as 720x480 instead of 853x480


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