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I have Fullscreen Video Output set as the default in preferences. Yet it does not always start fullscreen. It seems to ignore the setting and start however it was when last closed. Any idea why? I'm on VLC 2.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.10.3.

What do you mean with "not always"? Does it work sometimes?

Please try resetting preferences, and set the fullscreen option again. Please also test with both possible fullscreen variants, maybe it is not working for you with only one of them.

I have set and reset these options several times, and I have tried enabling and disabling "native" full screen. The result is always the same. Videos always start in the state VLC was in the last time it was closed. If it was fullscreen when last exited, the next time it opens fullscreen. If it was not full screen when last exited, it doesn't open full screen next time. It is like the VLC preference has no effect or power to override the OS.

Works fine here. Please perform the mentioned preferences reset. If this does not help, you need to give more details like logs.

I have reset all preferences, and reset fullscreen mode and there is no change.