Forcing full screen video to ratio 4:3

[nLinked]

Is there a way to force video to play in the 4:3 ratio when in full screen mode?

Many streaming videos are in widescreen so I get black borders on the top and bottom of the video when I play it fullscreen. My monitor is not widescreen. I don't mind if the picture gets stretched slightly, I would still prefer all video to fill up the whole screen.

I would like this to happen for streaming and downloaded video files, and I only want to use Windows Media Player (WMP 11 Beta 2 currently).

Is there a way to force all video to playback in a 4:3 ratio?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Really, that's kinda like all those commercials on teh TV that are widescreen: you can't do anything temporary about it.

 

[Raptor45]

You can, but not in WMP as far as I know. Why are you so obsessed with using WMP anyway? Your other post requires it too.

 

[xtknight]

If you use something like Media Player Classic you have lots of aspect options. But you need to sacrifice image geometry somehow. Either part of it's going to be missing, there will be black bars, or it's going to look stretched and suddenly all those scantily clad people you see on TV will need to go on a diet.