Solved VLC media player crops movie picture

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Monti

Hi,

I am trying to play some HD720 .mp4 movies that I downloaded from youtube, but multimedia/vlc is cropping the movie pictures with all of them when initially starting. If I minimize the multimedia/vlc window a bit, the cropped picture gets a bit more complete. I can continue like this until the multimedia/vlc window is quite small and where the move picture is completely whole.

I have been using multimedia/vlc for a long time and have never experienced this.

Does anyone have a clue why this is happening?

I have attached two pictures, the first showing a large multimedia/vlc window (1282x815) with a cropped movie picture, and a small picture with a small multimedia/vlc window (613x336) where the movie picture has ended up becoming complete.

Thanks,
Monti
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Are you sure that is not the correct size of the video?

Have you attempted to resize the window?

When all else fail move the $HOME/.config/vlc folder to verify nothing in your config is causing it.
 
Thank you for your reply Rod Myers . When the movie picture becomes complete the zoom is less than 1:2 Half. To get it whole right away I have to choose 1:4 Quarter zoom.

To explain a bit more about how it works. If I start it and let it open with default size I can then grab bottom right corner and move it so the window will become gradually smaller. The movie picture will then gradually become more complete.

I have tried moving the ~home/.config/vlc folder, but it did not make any difference.

Thanks
 
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Thanks for the solution. Have been tolerating this problem for some time now.
 
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