VLC--resizing does not work, mostly black screen

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After toying around with the options in vlc I found I can only get it to resize the video if I select “Simple Direct Media Layer” as my Video->Output and using “VA-API video decoder via X11” for my decoding Input/Codecs->hardware accelerated decoding. It used to work just fine with automatic. With Simple Direct Media Layer it opens up another window for the movie and the regular window for controls. I can live with that, but just curious what is going on with vlc. I’ve also had a problem while playing dvd’s and having vlc choose the right audio channel.
Any pointers, info?
vlc is from the packman repo

rpm -q vlc
vlc-2.2.1-289.2.x86_64
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See here: VLC video playback in Plasma 5.4, openSUSE 13.2 - Multimedia - openSUSE Forums

In short, it’s a problem/incompatibility with Qt 5.5.

Workarounds:

  • downgrade Qt5 to the 5.4.2 versions from the openSUSE 13.2 update repo
    or
  • activate the “skinnable GUI” in VLC’s settings (Interface->Use custom skin)

For your other problem, try to uninstall libvdpau_va_gl1.

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Thanks for the quick reply. Yes changing to a skin works perfectly. Thank you very much. Not willing to downgrade qt, but hope they figure out the problem.