I can confirm this on x86 from repos; in fact, I think it broke when I did the following upgrade of vlc packages:
Commit Log for Tue Mar 20 12:55:23 2007 Upgraded the following packages: libvlc0 (0.8.6.release-0ubuntu3) to 0.8.6.release-0ubuntu4 vlc (0.8.6.release-0ubuntu3) to 0.8.6.release-0ubuntu4 vlc-nox (0.8.6.release-0ubuntu3) to 0.8.6.release-0ubuntu4 as it was just working the other day! :) -- "always on top" option in VLC not working https://launchpad.net/bugs/84098 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
