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Why are so many videos this resolution on my monitor? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I'm not sure if this is an actual problem or just me misunderstanding how screens/resolutions work.

My issue is this; whenever I watch movies, series or just YouTube, quite often it's at this really small rectangular resolution with black boxes all around. This will also occur in video players such as MPV and VLC when watching latest season Andor for example. However, it does not happen on all videos - which is why im confused regarding this.

My screen is an Alienware 34 Curved QD-OLED Monitor - AW3423DWF.

Is there a way I can scale the resolution up?

Let me know if I can supply any additional details and thanks for any help!

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[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You will get used to it easily. I have used an ultrawide monitor for nearly a decade and I doesn't even notice this anymore, i remember it was strange at the beginning. You can use btowser addons like this: https://uw.wtf/ if it annoys you. There are similar other addons, search for "ultrawide" in your browsers addon store. I'm sure you can zoom insimilarly in vlc some way, but then you wont see the top and bottom of the movies

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for this! Yeah I'm quite new to this screen/resolution 😅