it's more obvious when not in full screen:
when i bring VLC to focus, all the screen becomes gradually (in 2-3 seconds) darker: background windows, vlc, task-bar..
when i play a movie, my desktop is dimmed after 2-3 seconds. the brightness is restored when i take to focus out of VLC video window. Even if the focus moves to VLC's own dialogs, (e.g. preferences), the brightness returns to the desktop. when i click VLC's main window, the screen is dimmed again. t...
mine too flickers. vlc 1.0.3 win XP sp2 when in full screen, the controls are flashing at about 2/3 from the top of the screen. i can even use them, e.g. by dragging the progress bar. the strange thing is that it happens only 70% of the time. i don't know what's the pattern, but it seems to be relat...