I don't know what has happened to VLC, suddenly one day it started playing videos in full-screen mode with a the bottom part of video black! while it works fine in normal mode.
Also the mouse pointer doesn't show while I'm hovering it over the video part, rest everywhere else it works fine! also in the bottom black part of the video in full-screen mode it works fine!
Please help me!
VLC version: 2.2.1 Weatherwax buildd@lgw01-18.buildd August 23 2015 19:27:18
Edit 1: I just installed VLC 3.0.0-git Vetinari buildd@icy01-34.buildd Jan 25 2016 06:16:39 and the problem persists!
Edit 2: as suggested by andrew.46 I ran both commands and the results were:
Edit 3: the pointer is working in full-screen now, also I see the full-screen controls now which were unavailable earlier but the original full-screen problem of bottom black screen continues!
Edit 4: I don't know what happened, it started playing videos in full-screen properly!
PS. I didn't reboot!
Edit 5: It started happening again since next day from which edit 4 was posted. Please help. None of the answers posted below helped.
Best Answer
Even if you uninstall and then reinstall vlc the configuration file can linger. This often gives unpredictable results. To eliminate this as a problem run the following 2 commands:
This will reset you vlc configuration to the vlc defaults as well as resetting your plugins cache and may be enough to bring vlc back to life...