I have a 1080p monitor.
Let me start with the behavior of Media Player Classic, which does exactly what I want.
If I play a small-sized video, let's say 480p, MPC opens a 480p window.
If I play a 1080p video, MPC opens a window that is almost but not quite 1080p. It automatically reduces/scales back the window a bit to take into account my Windows taskbar, the MPC header & button controls at bottom, etc. Thus, I can see the MPC play/pause and other video controls at the bottom of the screen.
Now to VLC.
If I play a small-sized video, e.g. 480p, VLC opens a 480p window.
If I play a 1080p video, VLC opens where the video part itself is 1080p, but because of the Windows taskbar & the VLC header & footer, I can't see the Play/Pause button at bottom of the screen. I have to manually resize the video to get it to actually fit in the screen where I can see these controls. It gets tedious to have to do this every time I play a 1080p video. I wish VLC would slightly scale/reduce the video like MPC does so I don't have to manually adjust it every time.
The only control I can find under Tools/Preferences to try to fix this is on the Interface screen: there is a box called "Resize interface to video size". It's currently checked. If I uncheck this, it does pretty much just what I want with the 1080p video. But the 480p video now opens to the same mostly full-size screen, which is now much bigger than the native resolution of the video, and is thus somewhat blurry because it's trying to play the video much bigger than its native size.
I'm looking for a way to make VLC behave like MPC and open smaller videos at their native size, but scale back videos bigger than my monitor (when the VLC borders & Windows taskbar is taken into account).
Let me start with the behavior of Media Player Classic, which does exactly what I want.
If I play a small-sized video, let's say 480p, MPC opens a 480p window.
If I play a 1080p video, MPC opens a window that is almost but not quite 1080p. It automatically reduces/scales back the window a bit to take into account my Windows taskbar, the MPC header & button controls at bottom, etc. Thus, I can see the MPC play/pause and other video controls at the bottom of the screen.
Now to VLC.
If I play a small-sized video, e.g. 480p, VLC opens a 480p window.
If I play a 1080p video, VLC opens where the video part itself is 1080p, but because of the Windows taskbar & the VLC header & footer, I can't see the Play/Pause button at bottom of the screen. I have to manually resize the video to get it to actually fit in the screen where I can see these controls. It gets tedious to have to do this every time I play a 1080p video. I wish VLC would slightly scale/reduce the video like MPC does so I don't have to manually adjust it every time.
The only control I can find under Tools/Preferences to try to fix this is on the Interface screen: there is a box called "Resize interface to video size". It's currently checked. If I uncheck this, it does pretty much just what I want with the 1080p video. But the 480p video now opens to the same mostly full-size screen, which is now much bigger than the native resolution of the video, and is thus somewhat blurry because it's trying to play the video much bigger than its native size.
I'm looking for a way to make VLC behave like MPC and open smaller videos at their native size, but scale back videos bigger than my monitor (when the VLC borders & Windows taskbar is taken into account).