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I've run a search on this issue, and found a post pertaining to it. However, it was left unresolved, so I hope it's ok to see if someone has found a solution yet.

Every time I play a video file in VLC, it will start playing just fine until I try to resize the viewing window. The video then stretches to fill the entire width of the screen, ignoring the boundaries of the window. I have no idea what could have caused this, since it just happened one day when I tried to view a file. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a solution available? Thanks for your time.

Which version of VLC, which OS ?

I have this problem too. The problem is with DirectDraw in DirectX9. If you change the output device to GDI, then the video renders correctly. But then you can't zoom/resize the video renderage. Browsing about this forum hasn't helped me though

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm using 0.7.2 with Windows XP.

It's strange that it should be a DirectDraw problem though, since I don't remember making any changes regarding video playback. Perhaps someone could help us out?