Zoom will not give you the exact size that you are looking for since there is no way to specify width and height with -zoom.This post has shown you several ways to install and launch the VLC media player. Right now, your best shot is to find the ideal number for the -zoom option

The suggestions I made in the comments for Devilspie2 and kpie are affecting the size of the window as well, so they may not seem appropriate in your case. So you have to find the best percentage that will play your video exactly as you want to. The third command is the only one that affects the video stream and not the window. I have tried every single option that includes the word width/height in the official VLC command-line help and the result is the same.

If you remove -fullscreen from your command, you will see that the window opening is the exact size as you specify, but once you enable fullscreen, the video plays in the original size. The first two set of options you are using:Īre targeting window scaling. I've been playing around on an Ubuntu VM for the past hour and did a little digging. I'm using VLC 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, so I cannot easily upgrade. This works on my machine (VLC 2.2.6) but reportedly results in a tiny video on the production system. The video is still scaled to fit the screen.Ĭvlc -fullscreen -vout glx -no-autoscale -zoom 0.6493506493506493 video.mp4 But it seems that -scale is just ignored.Ĭvlc -fullscreen -vout glx -width 800 -height 519 video.mp4 This is what the documentation ( -help) of -autoscale and -scale would suggest. just command line options)?Ĭvlc -fullscreen -vout glx -no-autoscale -scale 0.65 video.mp4

So how to achieve this during playback using cvlc (i.e. Moreover, we'd like this to be easily adaptable to other resolutions in the future. I could alter the video file to include the black bars, but would rather avoid the inevitable quality loss (and codec hassles) from transcoding.

scaled to about 65% black bars are to be added on all sides: +-screen-+ So the actual video size would be about 800×519, i.e. I have a video that's 1232×800 pixels in size, to be played on a projector with 1280×800 resolution, but constrained to a box of 800×800 in the middle of the screen, maintaining aspect ratio.

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