How would I go about increasing the size of the video on this popular American sign language Anki deck?

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This deck - ASL Browser with 4500 Signs including video - has the most vocab I’ve found, but as you can see by the reviews, the aspect ratio of the mp4 videos are very small… 172x160! For a visual language, this makes it hard to see what is being signed. See screenshot:

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Is there any way to either change the default size/zoom of the player that opens up within Anki, or bulk change the aspect ratio of the underlying files?

I can do this on an individual basis by changing the size of the window each time the card comes up, but as soon as the next card comes up, the size resets.

This is what the fields look like:

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And the front card type:

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I’ve tried inserting HTML and CSS into the card type and modifying the Front field to just include the direct video reference: “sign_0118.mp4a”, but then inline player doesn’t work: it doesn’t seem to load the video file. The only way I can get it to play is using the [sound:] syntax, and in that case I can’t find a way to modify the size.

Thanks, everyone.

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Disregard this. I’ve decided to simply combine these three GIF-based decks instead and use CSS to increase the GIF size:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/914292920

This also has the benefit of making the videos loop.

I will see if I can publish the final deck to the library.

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For anyone else seeing this, try this for modifying video:

video {
  width: 100%;
}
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