Making video clips full screen

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Phil James

I don't know where to post this, so I'll start here.

When I watch a video clip, it's usually about 3" x 4" on the screen, and I
see nothing that looks like an icon to click to change it to full screen
size. Can this be done? How?

Thanks...

Phil
 
For Windows Media Player:

Alt + Enter = Full screen. Or on the View menu, click Full Screen.
Alt + 1 = 50%
Alt + 2 = 100%
Alt + 3 = 200%

Or on the View menu, click Video Size and then click a %.

For DivX Player:

Alt + Enter = Full screen.
Alt + 1 = 50%
Alt + 2 = 100%
Alt + 3 = 200%

For Media Player Classic:

Alt + Enter = Full screen.
Alt + 1 = 50%
Alt + 2 = 100%
Alt + 3 = 200%

When in Full Screen in Media Player Classic, 9 on the Number Pad increases
the size of the video in the screen and 1 on the Number Pad decreases it.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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In Windows Media Player, F5 key gets full screen. If not for whatever
you're using, Wesley's suggestions apply; I've seen them mentioned for other
apps.

Malv.
 
Hi Malv,

F5 is Refresh in both WMP 9 & 10. Maybe F5 does something different in WMP
11.

F5, apparently, does nothing in WMP 6.4.

WMP 6.4 (mplayer2.exe):
ALT + ENTER Use full-screen mode or return to previous size from
full-screen mode.
ALT+1 Resize video to 50%.
ALT+2 Resize video to 100%.
ALT+3 Resize video to 200%.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Both F5 and alt + enter work fine.

I tried it for a Power Point presentation, but that doesn't work there.

But I'm happy now -- except that the full screen image does leave a lot to
be desired in sharpness and crispness! I suppose that's the image that was
sent. Too bad we can't make these video images look like DVDs!

Thanks, guys!

Phil
 
Some video files were never intended to be viewed in full screen. If the
original video size has something like Width 320 pixels Height 240 pixels,
it's going to look like mung in full screen. I.e. any original video size
that is substantially smaller that your screen dimensions will not look very
good in full screen.

You can see the video size two ways. Open a file with WMP, click on File
and then Properties. On the File tab, Video size will be displayed. Right
click a video file, click Properties, click the Summary tab and click the
Advanced button. Width and Height will be listed under Image.

Some video files are higher quality, almost DVD quality, and look just fine
in full screen. It depends on the file. The easiest way to do it is just
try full screen for whatever video file, if it looks like mung, view it in a
smaller screen size.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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