Postby Python42 » 10 Feb 2022 21:24
I'm still not getting my point across. Let's assume, for the sake of simplicity, that the display consists only of the video window. No menu bar, no title bar, no status bar. Just the video window.
Now let's pick some numbers. Let's say I'm watching a video that is 1280x720. I want to see it larger, but not full screen. The aspect ratio of the video is 16:9. If I press Z to zoom in, I end up with an almost full screen, and black borders on the left and right. The video, naturally, has the same 16:9 aspect ratio.
If CTRL-SCROLLWHEEL worked the same in VLC as it does in many other apps (FastStone Viewer, gimp, etc.) then scrolling in one tick might result in a video window of size approximately 1400x788 which would be the same aspect ratio of 16:9.
The video player I referred to earlier was BSPlayer. I downloaded and installed the free version in a virtual machine to double check my memory. In fact, it would zoom in/out on SCROLLWHEEL without the CTRL. As well, when resizing using the borders (click-drag) it automatically removes black bars. This allows resizing to any desired size while both maintaining the original aspect ratio and not wasting screen space with black, non-video areas. I don't see a downside to this. It could easily be added as a preference "Automatically remove black borders".