# Does a media clip decide the size of the player window?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 11, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-media-clip-decide-the-size-of-the-player-window/827575 "2019-01-11T05:18:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-media-clip-decide-the-size-of-the-player-window/827575/1 "2019-01-11T05:18:19Z")

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If so how do you change it?

I notice that some mpegs just roll one to the next and leave the window consistent.

But some seem to control and make changes to the sizing, which you dont want if you have multiple stuff open. It means resizing the window.

CAn I avoid it?

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-media-clip-decide-the-size-of-the-player-window/827575/2 "2019-01-11T09:27:44Z")

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Are you using Windows Media Player? You want to right-click on your first video, choose “Video” from that context menu, and _untick_ “Fit Player to Video” but _leave_ “Fit video to Player on resize” _ticked_ on the second context menu. The setting should persist to the next vid you open. That seems to work for me with all movies, both MP4s and AVIs.