Currently if the aspect ratio of a video is 16x9 which most are and you are running a 16x9 screen you will see black bars both on the side of the screen and on the bottom and top. I suggest that it at least be an option to expand the video over the whole width of the screen eliminating the black bars. and if you have for example a 16x9 video on a 16x10 screen it should expand to the full width of the screen and have small black bars on the bottom and top. The other way around 16x10 video on 16x9 screen would give small black bars on the side. Pretty simple, and it would look a lot better.
Two and a half years ago when I first wrote this topic there was the issue if we allowed this we would essentially make a lot of the game for widescreen gamers by default making it a lot less attractive for still the majority then running on 4x3 this has changed however first of all the vast majority of all the background video on osu! Is already in widescreen resolutions so I doubt it will change much there. Second, a lot more people are running widescreen nowadays, I think recently we got to the point that a widescreen resolution was finally more common than a 4x3 one.
We could also allow 2 background images one for 16x9 and one for 4x3 shame for the other aspect ratios but as far as I know they are still less common and at least somewhat similar to the two so it wouldn't be that much of a problem.
Two and a half years ago when I first wrote this topic there was the issue if we allowed this we would essentially make a lot of the game for widescreen gamers by default making it a lot less attractive for still the majority then running on 4x3 this has changed however first of all the vast majority of all the background video on osu! Is already in widescreen resolutions so I doubt it will change much there. Second, a lot more people are running widescreen nowadays, I think recently we got to the point that a widescreen resolution was finally more common than a 4x3 one.
We could also allow 2 background images one for 16x9 and one for 4x3 shame for the other aspect ratios but as far as I know they are still less common and at least somewhat similar to the two so it wouldn't be that much of a problem.