Wrong fullscreen size on notched 14" MacBook Pro

Using the "legacy" fullscreen mode on the new notched MacBook Pro 14" (and likely the bigger one as well) results in the video displaying at the wrong size, likely because the fullscreen is shrinked to fit below the notch.

Originally reported on this forum thread.

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How can we simulate the notch without buying a new MBP?

Unchecking ""Scale to fit below built-in camera" in VLC's Finder info window solved the issue on my 16" MBP with notch. Apple's documentation regarding the notch is here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/nsprefersdisplaysafeareacompatibilitymode

If I understand well, adding the NSPrefersDisplaySafeAreaCompatibilityMode key with a value of False to the app's Info.plist should solve it.

Really nice. Thanks a lot for the testing and the documentation! Would you happen to have such a MBP so you could try a prerelease build?

I could test this and here is what I observed:

In legacy mode, in full screen, the video uses the whole 16:10 display allowed by this mode
In normal/new mode, in full screen, the video is vertically centered to the screen.

This leads to an issue where the video can disappear behind the notch and extra space is available right under the video.
To fix this, we could center the video to the 16:10 area available when the notch is excluded (this is what QuickTime looks to do for instance)

Here is the notch, visible on the video (I let the pointer on the bottom margin to show the usable free space)

@fkuehne yes i have a new 16" MBP and would be happy to help testing.

With "Scale to fit below built-in camera" and "native full screen mode" both unchecked, as @edrflt tested, the videos are actually centered as if the notch was a functional part of the display.

16/9 play fine but are a bit higher on the display than expected. 4/3 videos have a cut where the notch is. Aspect ratios in between might have the worst of both, as the example highlighted by @edrflt

With STFBBIC checked and native full screen mode unchecked, you get black bars left and right for 16/9 videos, but 4/3 play nicely below the notch.

With "native full screen mode" enabled, both 16/9 and 4/3 videos play nicely in full screen below the notch, regardless of whether STFBBIC is checked or unchecked.

For reference, Apple provides this documentation: safeAreaInsets, like the iOS safe area

And they also provide auxiliaryTopLeftArea and auxiliaryTopRightArea for the areas on the left and right sides of the notch

assigned to @dfuhrmann

I happen to have a fitting macbook now, so I can investigate a bit further. :-)

Congrats and good luck! :)

mentioned in merge request !1222 (merged)

Implementation is merged for the 3.x branch, you are very welcome to try out the latest nightly build (https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc-3.0/nightly-macos-x86_64/20220121-0215/ or newer) and report back if they are any additional issues.

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