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Hello, I'm a great fan of VLC and I use it for playing nearly all the media on my computer. I find that it's rock solidly stable and it's also really easy to use :) The only problem that I have is with the icon. It's not very descriptive of what the application does. Namely, it plays media. I think ...

But the same video works with mplayer

Hey, I'm using VLC Player for the Mac, version 0.8.1 on Mac OS 10.3.7 When I try to play a video with aspect ratio of 4/3, I get a very wide screen with no video. It's just a black screen. I've tried 4x3 and 4/3 in Preferences --> Video --> Source Aspect Ratio but I still get the same effect. Am I u...