Viewing 2k video on 1080p monitor

[slayer202]

Not sure if this is the right forum but...

I just bought a dash cam that shoots 2k video. My monitor is 1080p. I've tried a few programs to playback the footage and with all of them, viewing the footage at 100% "zoom" or size only fits the video to the screen. Shouldn't the video be larger? I can't seem to figure out how to view it in its true size, but maybe I'm just dumb and am missing something obvious. I found a program that lets me zoom and pan but I can't tell if it's a digital zoom or if it's actually using the correct resolution.

 

[Headfoot]

2k is just a little bit wider than 1080p so letterbox mode or similar should work. If you're talking about 1440p then you wont be able to view it at 1:1 full pixel size because you dont have enough pixels, that's why the 100% zoom fits it to the screen. Are you thinking like a windowed view of the video that extends beyond the edges of the monitor (when viewed 1:1)?

 

[richaron]

2k is just a little bit wider than 1080p so letterbox mode or similar should work. If you're talking about 1440p then you wont be able to view it at 1:1 full pixel size because you dont have enough pixels, that's why the 100% zoom fits it to the screen. Are you thinking like a windowed view of the video that extends beyond the edges of the monitor (when viewed 1:1)?

If by 1440p you mean QHD then yes I think that's OP is saying. Or is it WQHD? I thought QHD was wide by definition? In which case WQHD would be ultrawide...

Also in my books 100% zoom should be 1:1 pixel mapping, which is different to full screen.

To answer OP's question, if for some odd reason you do want to play the QHD movie 1:1 so parts of it will be off screen on a 1080p FHD (WFHD?) monitor you could use VLC player windowed: Video > Zoom > 1:1 Original.

Edit: Maybe not necessarily windowed in VLC and you'll have to un-check "Always Fit Window".

 

[slayer202]

Right, windowed view that extends beyond the screen is what I was thinking. I could swear I played around with all the settings with VLC player and couldn't get it to do that, but I'll give it another shot. I don't think it's that strange? I want to see what kind of quality/details it shows at full size (though yeah, it's still not really full resolution)

grr, so yeah, unchecking always fit window works, but it crops the video to fit the window, and it doesn't let me create a window bigger than my 1080p resolution...

 

[bystander36]

For the record, 1080p is considered a 2K resolution, in the exact same way 3840x2160 is 4K. Of course 2K does cover some other sizes too. I'm not sure what the actual resolution you are using, but let's assume it's bigger than 1080p. By default, most players are just going to make the video footage fit the screen and no more. Some players may allow you to show 1:1 mapping, but I don't think most allow this.

 

[slayer202]

ah, gotcha. the camera is actually "2.5k" 2560 X 1440

I guess I'll try to look around for players sometime. Thanks guys

 

[richaron]

grr, so yeah, unchecking always fit window works, but it crops the video to fit the window, and it doesn't let me create a window bigger than my 1080p resolution...

Shirley you can just keep making the window bigger by grabbing a corner and yanking. Then move most of it off screen and yank some more until the window is huge.

It's hard for me to help coming from Linux but these sort of things are universal. I assume you can also do the "alt+spacebar > m" thing so you can then move the huge window around with the arrow keys.

 

[slayer202]

nope, it won't let me expand

 

[Ichinisan]

Consumer "4K" is 3840x2160

They're cheating by measuring the width (columns of pixels) instead of the height (rows of pixels).

I'm pretty sure "2K" is just another way of saying "1920x1080" or "1080p" when comparing it to consumer "4K."