VLC Displaying Incorrect Resolution

[OfficerHalf]

Picture showing the issue

This occurs on Fedora 24, VLC version 3.0.0-git Vetinari.

No matter what video I play, the video is shrunk down into the bottom corner like that, and VLCs interface is stretched oddly. This particular video is 1856x1004. I picked it for its size and the fact that I was viewing it just fine yesterday. I've reset VLCs settings (deleted ~/.config/vlc and ~/.cache/vlc) and rebooted. Even tried the previous kernel, but the issue is still there. The only way I can get it close to right again is to change my screen resolution - just stepping down from 1920x1080 to 1400x1050 causes VLC to work properly for that resolution, but no matter what I've tried I cannot get it to display properly at my screen's native resolution. Am I missing something?

[davidgf]

Same issue here!

Also every time I update vlc it changed the way it behaves. My current version is vlc-3.0.0-0.8.fc24.x86_64

Right now menus are quite big, but movies still apear in the corner bottom...

See: http://imgur.com/a/FAIcf

Thanks!

[davidgf]

Ah crap, the screenshot doesnt capture it! But same issue as OfficerHalf. In my case it's even smaller, I can work around it by doing:

QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=0.33 vlc

OfficerHalf you can try with 0.5 which should work for your resolution I guess

[phorgan1]

Thank you davidgf. Ever since I got a 4K monitor vlc has used only the top left corner. Thanks to you I made this alias: alias vlc='QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=0.5 vlc'
Now everything works just the way it should.

[gnit]

Same issue here on Fedora 24

Package is vlc-3.0.0-0.8.fc24.x86_64 (VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision 2.2.0-git-8754-g1c89583)

Have to downgrade to vlc-3.0.0-0.1.fc24.x86_64

http://imgur.com/a/1p7NS

thanks
Aurélien

[blackjackshellac]

Awesome, this has been driving me bananas. I figured it was a QT issue since the control bitmaps looked so ugly.

You can also fix it by adding the following to your ~/.bash_profile,

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QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=0.5 export QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS

Logout and log back in again to enable.