Watching video in Win Media Player? Can I...

[snezzer]

Watching video in Win Media Player? Can I...

make the screen Blacked out around the actual playing video?

I realize that I can make it Full Screen, but then it looks too "digital" and "pixally" so I want to leave it a little smaller than full screen, but then I see all of the other "stuff" on the rest of the screen.

If Windows Media Player can't help me with this... can you suggest a player that would do this? I can't be the first person to ever want a plain background while watching a video.

Thanks in advance,
~snezzer

[lufbra]

Welcome to CTH! :)

I'm not sure if another program could even do this for you, since IMO Windows Media Player is one of the best out there. The problem isn't your Player, it's more likely the quality of how the video's are actually created, to be shown through computers. Are the video's ones that you have downloaded?

[snezzer]

yes. For example, it is a downloaded episode of Alias that I missed. It's smaller than it should be, I guess (about 75 mb), so that would account for quality loss when going fullscreen. I guess, I just thought I could keep it at (say 50 or 100%) but still make the media player body disappear, like it does when you go to fullscreen.

[lufbra]

Unless you can verify that the download is a "legit" download, we here at CTH can't/won't help with this, please read the CTH Terms Of Use.

[jtdoom]

with the statement as is, we won't help on the quality issue, but you could do BLACK background, hide toolbar, and put icons aligned on raster and put them in middle of screen.

good luck, don't be a pirate.