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    From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Tue Feb 8 18:47:52 2022
    I recorded a lecture using zoom. The size of the screen is supposed to
    be ( confirmed by vlc) 1250x720 or something like that. But when vlc
    displays the movie, it is a square, and the sides of the picture have
    been cropped. Since the movie was a blackboard lecture, this crops the
    sides of the blackboard.

    Is there some way I can get vlc to show the whole frame, not this square cropped frame?

    If I look at the movie in losslesscut ( which I use to trim the dead
    space at the beginning and the end of the lecture), I see the full
    frame. I cannot see anything in the vlc setup which would be doing this,
    but I may have missed it.
    Thanks

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Tue Feb 8 18:58:41 2022
    On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:47:52 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

    I recorded a lecture using zoom. The size of the screen is supposed to
    be ( confirmed by vlc) 1250x720 or something like that. But when vlc
    displays the movie, it is a square, and the sides of the picture have
    been cropped. Since the movie was a blackboard lecture, this crops the
    sides of the blackboard.

    Is there some way I can get vlc to show the whole frame, not this square cropped frame?

    If I look at the movie in losslesscut ( which I use to trim the dead
    space at the beginning and the end of the lecture), I see the full
    frame. I cannot see anything in the vlc setup which would be doing this,
    but I may have missed it.

    To see if it's some config setting that's been changed, with vlc closed, try renaming .config/vlc to .config/vlcold, then run vlc.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.24 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Tue Feb 8 21:35:06 2022
    On 2022-02-08, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:47:52 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

    I recorded a lecture using zoom. The size of the screen is supposed to
    be ( confirmed by vlc) 1250x720 or something like that. But when vlc
    displays the movie, it is a square, and the sides of the picture have
    been cropped. Since the movie was a blackboard lecture, this crops the
    sides of the blackboard.

    Is there some way I can get vlc to show the whole frame, not this square
    cropped frame?

    If I look at the movie in losslesscut ( which I use to trim the dead
    space at the beginning and the end of the lecture), I see the full
    frame. I cannot see anything in the vlc setup which would be doing this,
    but I may have missed it.

    To see if it's some config setting that's been changed, with vlc closed, try renaming .config/vlc to .config/vlcold, then run vlc.

    I see nothing in those files. However, I transfered the video over to
    another computer, also running Mga8, and there vlc runs and shows what it should.
    No cropped video. So, something is weird on the first machine. OK.
    Thanks. I know where to look now.


    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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