Hello. I'm having an extremely weird issue with VLC. I got this issue a couple months ago and I was able to fix it by reinstalling VLC, but now that isn't working.
This is going to sound confusing, but hear me out. If I start a video in VLC that is resolution A (eg 1920 x 1080) and I open another video that is resolution B (eg 1280 x 720), then I fullscreen the first video and VLC moves onto the second video without coming out of fullscreen, when I come out of fullscreen, the interface will be the size of the resolution of the first video I fullscreened. So if I fullscreen video A (1080p) and then play video B (720p) either in the playlist or I double-click on it as I have two monitors, then un-fullscreen video B, video B will be in a 1080p VLC window. This also works in the reverse. If I fullscreen video B and then move to video A, then I un-fullscreen, video A will be in a 720p VLC window. If I right click and set video aspect ratio to 1:1 it will resize itself, but VLC is supposed to do this automatically, and has been doing that automatically for years.
If you are still confused, I captured my screen showing the problem in the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdrhDrMogr4
What I have done so far:
Check and un-check various options in VLC's simple and advanced menus.
Uninstall and reinstall VLC.
Uninstall VLC and delete cache and preferences and reinstall VLC, also deleting cache and preferences.
Uninstall VLC, deleting cache and preferences --> disk cleanup on OS disk, deleting all temp files --> manually searching "This PC" for "VLC" and deleting any non-installation files --> restarting PC --> reinstalling VLC
I'm absolutely stumped. As far as I can tell, VLC should be working. It was working yesterday, and it's not working today. The same thing is what happened the last time; it just was not working one day. Can I get some help with this please? It's more annoying than you'd think, as I have various video files that differ in resolution.
I'm using Windows 8.1 x64, and it's a non-bloatware installation. If you need any more system information I'll gladly provide.