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Thumbnailing within VLC does not preserve the aspect ratio

When creating thumbnails, the resulting file will always have the aspect ratio 1:1.6. Media with a different AR will be thumbnailed in a distorted way.

See the attached sample for reference. Source stream available on request.

100-fixed-AR

100-actual-result

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