I followed the manual steps in the 42.2 sticky post very carefully to have all the required repositories and multimedia codec packages and finally, the VLC-3.0.0 player shows some video.
The only problem left is that the video only takes up the upper-left quarter of the screen, both in windows and full-screen modes, and I can’t get it to stretch.
Has this happened to anyone else? How did you fix it?
Thanks!
From where did you install vlc?
Post your repos:
zypper lr --uri
Which video output do you use in vlc?
I installed vlc-beta from packman. I followed this guide step-by-step, you can see everything I installed.
I’m not sure what you mean by video output…
I have the same problem as this guy:
Hi, I run into this problem before. Here is what I have done. Maybe you could give it a try.
It seems that the problem is due to the Output (VLC -> Tools -> Preferences -> Video -> Display, under “Windows Decorations”) setting. For me, I changed it from Automatic to OpenGL GLX Video Output XCB. After this, I quitted and relaunched VLC.
This “OpenGL GLX” thing seems related to the “Rendering backend” and “OpenGL interface” in System Settings –> Display and Monitor –> Compositor. My settings are OpenGL 3.1 and GLX.
Good luck.
First you use a beta, that could mean bugs but OK.
Second, like mentioned by the poster above you could change the video output. I use the same setting, OpenGL. You can try some others. Often I experienced problems when I used vlc’s default ‘Automatic’.
Third and worst case, delete your config for vlc from ~/.config/vlc. You can just delete the vlc folder here and relaunch the application. It is a hidden folder.
I am speculating but that screenshot looks a lot like an old vlc 2.2 Qt5 bug that was fixed in 42.1 at the time 3.x beta was build with Qt 4 and didn’t have the bug we wore even speculating about using a qt4 version of vlc
If they migrated vlc beta to Qt 5 it’s possibly the same bug
the solution is to use vlc 2.2 changing video outputs didn’t fix the bug then it won’t fix it now
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/509523-VLC-video-playback-in-Plasma-5-4-openSUSE-13-2
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=128096
but that was a qt5 bug and it was fixed in qt5.6 it might be a regression in 5.6.1?
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-48321
you should really tell us your repo’s
zypper lr -d
I have installed FYI
**vlc**-beta-noX-3.0.0+git9358-1.15.x86_64
**vlc**-beta-3.0.0+git9358-1.15.x86_64
**vlc**-beta-qt-3.0.0+git9358-1.15.x86_64
lib**vlc**6-3.0.0+git9358-1.15.x86_64
lib**vlc**core9-3.0.0+git9358-1.15.x86_64
**vlc**-beta-codecs-3.0.0+git9358-1.15.x86_64
Have you tried removing the vlc folder in .config ?
Not sure if that will help.
Removing the vlc config folder didn’t help. Changing the video output to OpenGL moved the video to the bottom-left corner, rather than upper-left.
Here are my repos:
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
---+-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss | Update Repository (Non-Oss) | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/opensuse/update/leap/42.2/non-oss/ |
2 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/opensuse/update/leap/42.2/oss |
3 | libdvdcss | libdvdcss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ |
4 | openSUSE-42.2-0 | openSUSE-42.2-0 | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | yast2 | hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-General_UDisk-0:0-part2 |
5 | packman | packman | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ |
6 | repo-debug | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Debug | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/ |
7 | repo-debug-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Debug-Non-Oss | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/non-oss/ |
8 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update-Debug | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.2/oss/ |
9 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.2/non-oss/ |
10 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/opensuse/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/non-oss/ |
11 | repo-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/opensuse/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/ |
12 | repo-source | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Source | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/ |
13 | repo-source-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Source-Non-Oss | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/non-oss/ |
Ah-HA! I went to the forums that I_A mentioned. I followed their advice and loaded a custom VLC skin. Now the video looks stretched to window and full-screen, as it’s supposed to be.
Definitely the old bug.
I wouldn’t mind using an ugly skin (I went through 5 by now, it’s awful), but the full-screen interface is gone 
I wish there was a different solution.
Update: Found one. A much more tolerable workaround: disable “Integrate video in interface”.
your repo’s look fine and this is really strange as that was a Qt 5.4 and 5.5 bug it was fixed in Qt 5.6
maybe you should file a bug report
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org
I still use vlc 2.2.4 on 42.2 and have no issues
Correct, and the fix has been backported to openSUSE’s 5.5.1 packages too.
maybe you should file a bug report
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org
I still use vlc 2.2.4 on 42.2 and have no issues
But only if you can reproduce it with the stable vlc version (2.2.4).
openSUSE doesn’t even offer vlc-beta (and openSUSE doesn’t develop vlc anyway), so reporting bugs against it in openSUSE’s bugzilla is just a waste of time.
Better go upstream to videolan.org in that case and report it there.
For the record, I am using vlc 2.2.4 with Qt 5.7.1 on 13.2 here and don’t see a problem either.
It might really be a problem in the beta.
So I would suggest trying the stable vlc version too.