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Re: video not fill browser window on 4k moni

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On 19/05/2026 04.43, bad sector wrote:

> However, browsers playing videos with resolution over the monitor 
> resolution are zoomed down to that level, soooooooo...
> 
> I do an ff thingie on all MY videos on that link list to make them 4k
> 
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=3840:2160" -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -c:a copy 
> output_4k.mp4
> 
> ...and then they will fill the browser window on all except 5k monitors. 
> I could also make them 5k but there are very few of those monitors and 
> the overhead is 80% more than 4k.

6k and 8k monitors out there too. I would say scaling up the video will 
not be a good solution, you make the video larger for no reason at all. 
Majority of people will still have a 1080p monitor, some may have 1440p, 
the only benefit they get is a larger bandwidth usage.

> Does this sound like a workable workaround?

It sounds like a 1995's bad solution, best solution would be to just 
provide it in it's original resolution.

If you really want that people play the video in the browser, then use a 
player page that can take filename or id as argument and then have it as 
the source video, your link then goes to player page with a parameter 
telling which video, make the video to be 100% of the page/tab size, 
then people can adjust things based on what they want to have it and if 
they think full screen is too pixley, then they can make the window 
smaller and get a better quality.

-- 
  //Aho

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video not fill browser window on 4k moni bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2026-05-17 22:53 -0400
  Re: video not fill browser window on 4k moni Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-18 00:10 -0400
    Re: video not fill browser window on 4k moni bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2026-05-18 22:43 -0400
      Re: video not fill browser window on 4k moni "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2026-05-19 12:35 +0200
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