Known Issues in release 5.3.x

Video Playback on VLC Media Player (Use default player instead)

• VLC Media Player always plays in fullscreen
• Lower-resolution Videos will play at Top-Left corner
• Under Portrait mode, the video plays in Letterbox mode

Camera access popup while playing YouTube videos

- While playing youtube video a camera allow popup may appear on the sreen. Issue following command on piShell/terminal & reboot to avoid this(will be fixed in release 5.3.3)

echo '--use-fake-device-for-media-stream' > /home/pi/.config/chromium-flags.conf     

Oct 2025 Update

If the above doesn't solve the issue, you could try removing the camera access settings file 

    rm ~/.local/share/flatpak/db/devices