How to stop forcing aspect ratio

[Ultraseamus]

I am working with vlc version 1.0.2, and cannot figure out how to tell the player to stop trying to maintain the aspect ratio with padding. Ultimately I would like to be able to specifically tell the player to never pad, and stretch to an extent, past that point it would start cropping. But, at this point in time I would be happy just being able to tell the player to never add padding, and always distort the aspect ratio to fill in the window. I can't find any appropriate setting through he GUI, and have tried using the command "--no-canvas-padd", but both that and "--canvas-padd" seem to just cause the player to lock up. Do they just no longer work in 1.0.2?