video sizing

So I have a video that is particularly wide. I want some of the sides to be cropped off so that it fills the whole screen vertically. Setting scaling mode to yes is not doing the trick.

I tried making the width wider than the screen and this helps to make the video take up the whole screen, but then the controls are also wider than the screen making it impossible to pause the video.

Is there anything I can do other than getting a differently proportioned video to begin with?