Video Modes

Mode is the heart of UltraWideo: it decides how a video fills your screen. There are four, and you can flip between them from the Settings tab, with a keyboard shortcut, or by scrolling over the video.

The four modes

• Normal — the video exactly as the site delivers it, untouched. This is the default and your "off" baseline.
• Upscale — zooms the video to fill the screen and crops the overflow, keeping correct proportions with no distortion. This is the everyday "kill the black bars on my ultrawide" mode.
• Stretch — stretches the picture edge to edge for zero black bars. People look slightly wide, but you use every pixel.
• Custom — whatever scale values you set yourself. Adjusting Scale automatically switches you here.

Which one should I use?

For most ultrawide setups, Upscale is the answer — it removes the side bars without warping anyone's face. Reach for Stretch only when you want absolutely no bars and don't mind a bit of distortion. Custom is there for the rare video where neither preset frames things quite right.

Good to know

Your chosen mode is remembered and re-applied automatically the next time you watch — set it once and forget it. If you find yourself never using a mode, Pro's Mode Manager can hide it from the cycle so a single shortcut press flips straight to the one you want.