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VLC reports 720 x 482 using Display Resolution 720x480 which results in a horizontally squished video. If you manually change the aspect ratio in VLC to 16:9 you will see a video at exactly 853x482. ffmpeg -i homemovie.mp4 -aspect 85:48 -c copy homemovie-fixed.mp4