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Fine control over zoom and aspect ratio in VLC player

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 2026106824 views
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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 all. An example: I play an older music video file that…

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Fix for: Fine control over zoom and aspect ratio in VLC player

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This is the solution that worked best for me: there was a video stream I had to play in VLC because RTMP is/was poorly supported in my preferred media player, MPCHC (which has this feature builtin to the numpad keys). This stream had both vertical a…

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