Video goes black when sharing on Zoom

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Video goes black when sharing on Zoom

Postby colorado_bob » 22 Sep 2020 08:43

I played a .MOV video and shared the window in a Zoom meeting:
  • The original was in portait mode, and I cropped the video to an aspect ratio of 1:1
  • I sized the window to show just the cropped 1:1 image
  • I changed the view to "Minimal Interface"
  • I shared screen in Zoom, selecting the VLC window
  • I used the hotkey <space> to start the video
  • I realized the video was not cued to the beginning, so I right-clicked to get the menue and clicked "|<< previous"
  • The window automatically resized to a landscape aspect ration (which was undesirable)
  • The video properly restarted at the beginning, but showed only a black screen - both in my local window and over Zoom. The sound was correct.
I know how to avoid this, but it seems like a bug worth addressing.

If I try the same sequence without sharing the screen, the window still resizes automatically, but the video is displayed properly.

This is with VLC 3.0.11 on Windows 7 (and Zoom 5.2.2).

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