Windows Media Player DOES allow grabbing the lower right corner and dragging to
resize it's playback window.
But, the GOM Player is indeed an excellent video player.
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"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:40:16 -0700, tonybeo
> <tonybeo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a new computer that has a higher resolution than my last one. The same
>>videos that I played in the old computer are smaller on the screen than they
>>were on the other computer. I have changed the settings in WMP in the View
>>menu under video size and tried to change to 200% but some videos are still
>>too small. I know that I can go to full screen but I was wondering if there
>>was a way to go to a higher seting than 200% without going all the way to
>>full screen since full screen makes some videos too grainy.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
> That's how it is suppose to be. The higher you make screen resolution
> the less size any object takes up on screen. That does not mean the
> quality is lower, however some software doesn't do a very good job
> when you stretch a window much beyond 150% of the content's actual
> size.
>
> Perhaps you would prefer a smarter viewer that lets you resize the
> area the movie takes up on your screen in tiny steps by just dragging
> a corner of the window it appears in then stop dragging when the
> window is large enough to meet your tastes.
>
> One such viewer is GOM Player. Just grab a corner of the window then
> while holding down your left mouse until the cursor turns into a
> double headed arrow then pull it out on an angle until the size of the
> window grows proportionally. Besides that this viewer has many
> optional controls that improve the enjoyment of videos. To access the
> controls click on the upper left where it says GOM.
>
> Best of all it is free and works fine under Vista.
>