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Questions tagged [aspect-ratio]

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Getting 1920x1080 resolution or 16:9 aspect ratio on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

I am running Ubuntu and Linux Mint in VMWare. In the display settings, none of the 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions are available, including the commonly used 1920x1080 resolution. How can I enable this?
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Fine control over zoom and aspect ratio in VLC player

In VLC Player (v1.01), how do I zoom video and control aspect ratio with fine control, as is possible with Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPCHC)? The standard zoom appears to only support double, normal, quarter size etc, not useful to me at…
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Why is the display resolution not exactly 16:9 or 4:3?

Most displays get advertised with either 16:9 or 4:3 display ratio. However, if you compare the resolution with the display ratio, it's most often neither of both. For example, the resolution of my notebook display is 1366x768. But 1366/768 =…
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Can VLC crop black borders on the fly?

Many recordings have black bars either on top and bottom or at the left and right side due to the various aspect ratios used, resulting in a 4:3 coded 16:9 movie showing black borders on all four sides in fullscreen mode on a 16:9 monitor (top and…
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How to convert a 16:9 movie to a 4:3 letterbox version?

Suppose you have a 16:9 aspect ratio wide-format movie file and you want to make a version ideal for playing on a 4:3 device. Since you don't want to clip any of the image or distort the picture, so you want to make a letterbox version. That is,…
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How to adjust Aspect Ratio in Windows Media Center

Is there any way of adjusting the aspect ratio of movies I view in Windows Media Center on Windows 7 RTM x64? Any hidden features? Any brilliant light weight plugins? Using Shark007 Codecs, and otherwise just default Media Center and Media Player. I…
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How to resize a 16:8 video to 16:9 video without stretching?

I have a 3840x1920 video and want it to be 1920x1080 without it being stretched. I have already resized it to 1920x960, but I want to add black bars for it to be 1920x1080 I used the commands below to resize it, but I don't know what is next to…
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How can I Stretch an image in a LibreOffice Impress presentation to fill the page?

After adding an image in a LibreOffice Impress presentation, you can manually move it around and scale it (either proportionally or each dimension independently). Is it possible to automatically make an image fill the entire page, preferably keeping…
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Set custom, non-standard aspect ratio in Movie Maker

I am trying to edit video which has a non-standard aspect ratio. In the project settings for Movie Maker I can only see two aspect ratio options: Standard (4:3) Widescreen (16:9) Even if I set the frame width and height to a non-standard ratio…
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How can I set the default aspect ratio for videos in VLC?

When opening video files, sometimes the aspect ratio doesn't fit my TV and I see black bars either side: How can I set the default aspect ratio to 16:9, so that I don't have to right-click and change each video's aspect ratio manually every time?
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Preserve aspect ratio when pasting width or height in Inkscape

I'm frequently using the paste size feature in Inkscape to ensure that several objects have the same size. But sometimes I want to just ensure that a new object has the same height as a old object but I want to preserve the aspect of the new…
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I get wrong aspect ratio for images and video converted using ffmpeg

I am trying to convert some old movie files to images (and later to reencode as h.264). The problem is that the resulting images are stretched vertically. Here is the ffmpeg command: ffmpeg -i preview.mpg -filter_complex "[0:v]fps=fps=1[onepersec];…
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Is there a way to force or maintain the aspect ratio of a window when resizing it?

I have certain windows like VLC for example that I'd like to be able to resize without them losing a 16:9 ratio. This would be useful for image viewers too. And just plain functionality would be awesome to have. I am sure there's a program out…
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Incorrect aspect ratio in mp4 (H.264) generated by Samsung camcorder

I just bought a Samsung Camcorder (SMX-F30BP). It has the ability to capture in standard Aspect Ratio (I guess 4:3) or in 16:9 format. The problem is that the mp4 (H.264) file generated is always regarded as a 4:3 format in any player I tried…
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Is There a Command Line to Setup a Video Aspect Ratio?

I want to change the video aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3. Have you got a command line to write down?
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