Thanks for looking into the cropping problem for me. It would be much appreciated if new versions would continue to play my "non conforming" video files correctly.
I "downgraded" to 0.8.5 and it plays all my videos properly. Why can't the new versions of VLC play them properly as well? Is this something that can be looked at by one of the VLC software programmers? I would be more than willing to provide a sample video.
I have the same issue with the new versions of VLC (playback only shows the top left quarter of the original video). The files I have problems with are mp4 files that were pulled off my Panasonic video camera using their software. I'm not sure what VLC version it stopped working with... but I think ...