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I'm experiencing problems with VLC, where the video image has green/purple boundaries on the bottom/right-hand side of the image (both in full-screen and windowed mode). I noticed that I can crop these edges out by going to Tools -> Effects and Filters -> Video Effects -> Crop, and cropping 3 pixels from the right and bottom. However, these settings aren't preserved, and I don't want to do this every time I watch a movie.

In the Preferences, it's possible to make permanent changes. It has a "Cropadd" entry, in which you can set crop and padding. This however has no effect at all. Neither does changing the ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc file directly, and neither does passing --cropadd-bottom=3 over the command-line, for example.

Does anyone know why these options don't work (version 2.20), or how I can make the cropping permanent?

You have to turn on the Filter that you just configured.

Tools/Preferences/Filter, you'll see a bunch of checkboxes, select "Video Scaling Filter".

But notice there are 2 checkboxes with that same name... the one you need is the one that will cause the word "cropadd" to show in a text box underneath.

Then you must restart VLC.

See for an example, with screenshots: http://askubuntu.com/questions/284709/h ... deo-in-vlc