Screenbox Stretch feature.

I have a 16:10 screen and when I play a 16:9 video I get a black bar at the top and bottom.

Feb 13 '25 12:02 DogancanYr

That's normal. You can "stretch" the video to fill the entire screen by adjusting the aspect ratio. 16:10 is not a preset option, but you can easily add it to the custom field.

Feb 13 '25 14:02 United600

It cuts the sides to fit.

Feb 13 '25 14:02 DogancanYr

It cuts the sides to fit.

Yes, it maintains the video aspect ratio and functions as a basic pan and scan. Any other method will stretch or compress the frame, resulting in a poor image quality.

Feb 13 '25 15:02 United600

If the video is 16:9, it only fills a few pixels.

Feb 13 '25 16:02 DogancanYr

I can spread it all over the screen with keepaspect=no in mpv player but I couldn't find it in vlc.

Feb 13 '25 16:02 DogancanYr

I can spread it all over the screen with keepaspect=no in mpv player but I couldn't find it in vlc.

Look here and play around with some of the commands in the advanced options, --monitor-par=<string> should be a good starting point.

Feb 13 '25 17:02 United600

I guess the values that the application uses also depend on --monitor-par=

Feb 13 '25 18:02 DogancanYr

I couldn't find this argument

Feb 13 '25 19:02 DogancanYr

I couldn't find this argument

We don't have a 16:10 option, but you can use the Fill or Custom option in the aspect ratio menu to get that.

Feb 17 '25 16:02 United600

The aspect ratio part of the app is equal to the crop option in vlc. I want to use the aspect ratio part and I couldn't find the argument.

Feb 17 '25 17:02 DogancanYr

The aspect ratio part of the app is equal to the crop option in vlc.

Ah, I understand. That's an unusual word choice from VLC part but it kinda makes sense. As mentioned earlier, to get something similar, you'll have to use advance arguments. This argument --monitor-par=<string> didn't work?

Feb 17 '25 18:02 United600

That argument works but wrong argumnet.

Feb 17 '25 18:02 DogancanYr

I tried arguments related to aspect ratio but none of them worked, where can I try arguments in vlc?

Feb 19 '25 16:02 DogancanYr

i've tried various arguments to try and force an AR of 16:9 to persist the next launch, from the vlc link above but the player seems to ignore them.

is the arguments feature broken?

May 04 '25 17:05 Mungr3ss

i've tried various arguments to try and force an AR of 16:9 to persist the next launch, from the vlc link above but the player seems to ignore them.

is the arguments feature broken?

It's unfortunate that LibVLCSharp doesn't support every argument. I had some "success" with the command I mentioned earlier.

May 04 '25 22:05 United600