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Is there a way to increase the visible dimesions of a mp4 video?

I recorded a video on the Kindle and transferred it to the Ubuntu laptop. The mp4 video claims to be 1080×1920 but it is small when run in VLC.

Running it in VLC with a crop of 2:21:1 is effective. However, I have not found a way to save it with these dimensions.

Most of the resources I’ve seen explain how to reduce video file sizes without compromising quality.

But is there a tool (avconv, handbrake, vlc, etc) which can increase the observable video dimensions of a file?