I recently ran apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian testing box. Upon reboot I found that VLC would play videos squished about 30% horizontaly and shoved to the left.

There seems to be a problem with some libraries in the Multimedia repo. This thread gives the fix that worked for me http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg575710.html

Here are my steps:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Comment out all Multimedia repos

aptitude update
aptitude purge vlc
apt-cache policy libavcodec52

aptitude install libav{codec52,device52,filter0,format52,util49,postproc51}=version from above command ffmpeg=version from above command libswscale0=version from above command

aptitude install vlc

VLC is back to normal. :)

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