I’ve narrowed this down to a specific, repeatable example: a video file which, when I play it on this system with vlc, always causes vlc to play later media — audio and video — in a full-screen-width window that can’t be narrowed: its side edges can’t be grabbed. Videos are centered horizontally between black horizontal borders, but their normal height and width. This video began life as MP4, where it causes this behavior with later media, both audio and video. I repackaged it as Matroska using mkvtoolnix, and that also causes the bad behavior.
Perhaps the bad behavior seen with audio files may shed some light. When I reset vlc’s config and play an audio with vlc, it displays the (black) content area at 600×390. After playing the evil video, when I play the same audio the content area is 1920×806 and the window can’t be narrowed.
I have screen grabs of everything.
This doesn’t happen with mpv, so it really appears to me to lie within vlc. What else can I do to help solve this persistent problem?
Statistics: Posted by djcv — 02 Jun 2024 12:00