Media

Video Aspect Ratio

Change video display aspect ratio (DAR) without resizing the video

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/video-aspect-ratio' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/videoFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-aspect-ratio' \
  -F 'videoFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'aspectRatio=16:9' \
  -F 'customWidth=16' \
  -F 'customHeight=9' \
  -F 'outputFormat=mp4'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-aspect-ratio

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
videoFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
aspectRatio	select	Yes	—
customWidth	number	No	—
customHeight	number	No	—
outputFormat	select	No

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-video-aspect-ratio": {
      "name": "video-aspect-ratio",
      "description": "Change video display aspect ratio (DAR) without resizing the video",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=video-aspect-ratio",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "video-aspect-ratio",
    "arguments": {
  "videoFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "aspectRatio": "16:9",
  "customWidth": 16,
  "customHeight": 9,
  "outputFormat": "mp4"
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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