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Well after using the trick I found in the bug fixes section I still have some problems with full screen quite frequently. Most of the time when I enter into full screen I get the problem shown below where I get a black border around the sides and bottom of the video. I'm using the newest version 0.8...

Nevermind, while I was checking the bug reporting area I stumbled upon a fix by Lambros Lambrou that said to go into: Settings-->Preferences than go to the Video tab and than to the Output Modules(make sure you clicked on the advanced options checkbox) and choose a different output than default(I ch...

Great, here I thought I might have actually gotten an answer to my question but instead I get some cursed spam bot replying to my post. Can someone delete his post and maybe answer my question?

Thanks

Are you running on AMD 64bit Ubuntu 6.10? If so there is a known issue with getting full screen to work right. You can look HERE for more information and a possible fix if you know how to install patches.

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Is there a step by step on how to do this? or is it possible to just download the 9.0 version(though I am guessing this is just a beta version) which i don't see on the site anywhere?

How do you apply this patch?

So, still no ideas for a fix? I have noticed something and would like a second person to see if they get the same results. I recently downloaded Beryl and got it working and decided to watch a video, at the time I had forgotten about the full screen not working and double clicked and very surprising...

Is this the problem you guys are talking about(image attached). Sorry take snapshot didn't want to capture the actual video but as you can see, the taskbars and top of the VLC window still show up in full screen mode. I use Ubuntu 6.10 64 bit Edfy Eft, I just switched over to Ubuntu 3 days ago and t...