[SOLVED] VLC video resize problem after upgrade to plasma 5.5?

[jurgen]

Hi all.

I have upgraded my Kubuntu Wily to Plasma 5.5.
I do not know whether that is relevant but I discovered today that VLC is not responding on resizing the window.
When I play a video with the resolution of e.g. 640*320. It will open small (e.g. 320*240). When I drag the window to a bigger size the video seams to be cropped (the bigger the window the smaller an more cropped the video will be).
Likewise, fullscreen does not show the complete video but a cropped version. I hope this info makes sense to somebody?

VLC (2.2.1)


Jurgen

[claydoh]

Wily has 5.5 already? I'll guess you are using staging ppas with unfinished things and missing/broken stuff. 5.5 stuff isn't quite complete in Xenial yet, and real work for wily is yet to get done

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[LinkBot]

KDE General Troubleshooting: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=38828
VLC support/troubleshooting guide: http://www.videolan.org/support/ -> https://wiki.videolan.org/Common_Problems

[jurgen]

Wily has 5.5 already? I'll guess you are using staging ppas with unfinished things and missing/broken stuff. 5.5 stuff isn't quite complete in Xenial yet, and real work for wily is yet to get done

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Yes, I know. Plasma 5.5 come with ppa (kubuntu-ci). Anyway, for some reason VLC worked fine after the upgrade. It was just today that I found this issue. So, thanks to the link LINKBOT gave me, I did some more thinking. I recall that I have been working on the video-preview issue in Dolphin following this howto: http://askubuntu.com/questions/69342...-kubuntu-15-10

/usr/bin/svlc (note the s in front of vlc) is not giving any trouble

[Teunis]

Hmm, I had a look into https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ci/+a...nstable-weekly , it seems empty and the daily one has some August 2015 packages.

[claydoh]

The plasma-ci is not plasma 5.5, it is actually newer, fresher, and largely untested and in-testing code pulled directly from the live KDE development git repositories. Though generally speaking it shouldn't affect vlc, unless there are newer versions of qt libraries in there, I would think.

[claydoh]

Hmm, I had a look into https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ci/+a...nstable-weekly , it seems empty and the daily one has some August 2015 packages.

The normal "stable" and "unstable" branches are the ones with packages these days, the others get borked often so sometimes it just is wiped clean. I think that these daily and weekly snapshots have proven harder to maintain and are on the backburner at the moment.

[jurgen]

Hmm, I had a look into https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ci/+a...nstable-weekly , it seems empty and the daily one has some August 2015 packages.

I added the 'stable' version: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ci/+a.../ubuntu/stable

[jurgen]

I noticed that /usr/bin/svlc gives VLC a different skin. So I gave VLC a different skin in preference and now VLC functions normal again. A bit strange but I think there is something wrong in the default setting. Deleting VLC's config did not work. Oh well, I can live with a different skin. I guess it is not Plasma related and I will have to do some more digging. This did not quite solve the problem but for now I will mark this thread as being solved.
Thx, everybody for your responds, especially the troubleshoot links were helpful.

[Teunis]

I added the 'stable' version: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ci/+a.../ubuntu/stable

Ah yes, gives me 390 updates and 14 packages to remove among which are muon, Kubuntu-desktop and Kubuntu-full...
I believe this needs some maturing

[claydoh]

kubuntu-full is not a required meta-package, and even the kubuntu-desktop meta-package is not necessary unless one is trying to install a plasma desktop on top of Unity or some other desktop. Muon (the whole suite) has been broken down into individual components, and currently there is no Muon Package Manager code that works there. Until the new maintainer of the package manager codebase can get to working on it.

[Teunis]

OK, I get that about the meta-packages (should have remembered )

I like Muon but will do without.

[Teunis]

I had hoped the kipi-plugins for QT5 would have been there, false hope...

So far all works.

[nicols]

Same problem here, kubuntu 15.10 with kde 5.5.3.
Problem started after upgrade to 5.5.3.... didn't find any useful solution, except changing to skinned mode.
I would be happier with breeze look on vlc

[claydoh]

I had hoped the kipi-plugins for QT5 would have been there, false hope...

So far all works.

Once the digikam folks release that (and gwenview is rebuilt against it) we get it all back. Digikam does have plasma 5 beta available, and there is appa with it somewhere, but gwenview doesn't/can't see the kipi plugins