Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 7

= December 7 =

Streaming video display ratio
On many streaming websites, many videos with wrong aspect or display ratios exist (e. g., video is 16:9 but displayed as 4:3). Is there such a thing as a Firefox (57.0.1, 64-Bit on Windows 10 Home) plug-in or add-on where I can change any streaming video's display ratio on any page with one click, a lot like I can in VLC? The only such exact plug-in I could find could only do it for YouTube, and the other two I found only could tell my OS that my *MONITOR* would be 21:9 rather than 16:9. --2003:71:4E07:BB77:903C:110A:4DF3:BC7A (talk) 23:34, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe one of the first three results on this page can help? &#40;&#40;&#40;The Quixotic Potato&#41;&#41;&#41; (talk) 16:28, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, thanks...I considered that my last resort because loading it into VLC will leave a permanent copy hogging my C: drive space that I'd have to clean regularly to keep my system running, hence I was hoping for a one-click in-browser solution. --2003:71:4E07:BB40:5DB9:6E6A:B4D1:170 (talk) 03:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, so I didn't find any plugin that did exactly what I wanted to do, so first I've installed that "Open in VLC" addon from your link. Doesn't do shit. Checked the settings and found it was looking for a VLC in totally the wrong place on C:, and since it was the only option at all, I fixed it, and still it doesn't do shit. So next I've installed YouTube 2 Player from the same URL above. When I try that, it only prompts me with the error msg, "Fix your options" and opens the options tab, but I can't change anything because it's all greyed out! All I can do is change the default player from this ominious default "MOX" player to VLC. Result: Jack shit happens upon clicking the "Send to external player" just as well, other than that now my RAM usage immediately jumping from 2 up to its absolute maximum 16 GB *AT ONCE* and that's it! Not even my task manager will show any new instance of VLC popping up secretely somewhere under thre hood! Plus, Firefox hogs my entire 16 GB of RAM and incredibly slows down my entire system from it until I kill it by means of CTRL + ALT + DEL. --2003:71:4E07:BB11:F008:B7DF:883A:442B (talk) 23:54, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
 * So now I'm through with *EVERY SINGLE ONE* of those addons from your link and none of them does a damn thing, even on YouTube which they are all frikkin' designed for, and even if you fix the program path! But at least none of the others hog my RAM to do nothing at all, as does YouTube Player 2. --2003:71:4E07:BB11:F008:B7DF:883A:442B (talk) 00:11, 13 December 2017 (UTC)