Yeah, same here. Normal users can't change anything in the top yellow box except when the new ticket is being created, but not after or on anyone elses ticket.
Just to add an additional manifestation of this bug, trying to crop using option-i and option-k (crop one pixel off top/bottom) produces some odd flashing, but doesn't work. The image gets progressively wider, as VLC preserves the height and pixel aspect ratio (something else I wish it wouldn't do, but that's a separate ticket), but the black bars stay put.
This is the standard Intel 32-bit VLC 2.0.0 build, Compiled by fpk with llvm-gcc 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.6), on OS X 10.5.8.
macosx: fixed aspect ratio and crop commands by removing a no longer needed hack (close [#5921](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/5921), close [#6080](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/6080))