title: How does one play higher resolution videos (4k and higher) in VLC (desktop app and Unity)?
body: <p>I'm trying to get a 360 streamed video to play at its full (4k) resolution.  I did do previous searching and found the below thread but it didn't answer my question.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57577484/how-do-i-adjust-the-video-resolution">How do I adjust the video resolution?</a></p>
  
  <p>My end goal is to integrate this into vlc unity but I also don't see how to adjust the resolution up to 4k (or higher) for streamed videos even on the desktop app.  As a test, I tried a 4k video from youtube in the VLC desktop app and couldn't see how to get it to play in 4k.  The end goal is to stream from aws but I want to confirm that my stream can indeed play at 4k before continuing to try to figure out why it's playing at lower resolution within Unity.  It resizes down to 1920x1080 instead of the intended 4096x2048 for my aws stream and resizes the youtube video down to 1280x720 from its 3840x2160.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried messing with the advanced settings and looking at input/codecs and the best option for "preferred video resolution" is "best available" (below that is full hd).  I've looked through other suggestions online and didn't see a lot to change but did change Settings-->Video-->Output to "DirectX (DirectDraw) video output.  This one was just me fumbling through the desktop app, but I tried going through Media-->Open Network Stream, clicking the arrow next to play and selecting stream, choosing RTSP for destination, and then editing the resolution within the profile to be a specified width and height.  None of the above changed the resolution of the video.</p>
  
  <p>TL;DR - How can I play a streamed video at higher resolutions (4k and up) in the VLC desktop app and in VLC Unity?</p>
  
  <p>Edit - adding requested code snippets.  This just modifies the UseRenderingPlugin file from the VLC unity asset.</p>
  
  <p>Also, similar to what was getting discussed in the comments, when I play the video locally instead of streaming, it plays at the full resolution of the video.</p>
  
  <p>Within Awake() I set the material to the 4096x2048 one mentioned for the skybox
          RenderSettings.skybox = material4k;</p>
  
  <p>And then in Update here is the relevant segment</p>
  
  <pre><code>        var texptr = _mediaPlayer.GetTexture(out bool updated);
              if (updated &amp;&amp; texptr != IntPtr.Zero)
              {
                  Debug.Log("Creating texture ");
                  tex = Texture2D.CreateExternalTexture((int)width,
                      (int)height,
                      TextureFormat.RGBA32,
                      false,
                      true,
                      texptr);
                  RenderSettings.skybox.mainTexture = tex;
                  }
  </code></pre>