Any particular reason you’re getting VLC from the AUR? Even if it didn’t come preinstalled, the pacman version is much better security- and stability-wise
Yes, the version in the standard Arch repos won’t play any mpeg2 videos. I have all the plugins installed so that’s not the issue. I ran it in Konsole and it threw some error about VDPAU. I’m using an AMD card so I don’t see why that would matter anyway. The VLC flatpak plays it fine but I have other issues with the flatpak. I’m using an RX 9070 XT.
Edit: Worth mentioning I didn’t try playing mpeg2 videos in this weird git version after I saw this UI. I doubt it would fix it anyway.
Sure but if you’re using weird flatpak versions of VLC those plugins won’t be invoked because the idea of a flatpak is that it brings it’s own plugins. Remove the non-standard versions you installed, put back the regular vlc package from the main repo and it’ll work.
Any particular reason you’re getting VLC from the AUR? Even if it didn’t come preinstalled, the pacman version is much better security- and stability-wise
Yes, the version in the standard Arch repos won’t play any mpeg2 videos. I have all the plugins installed so that’s not the issue. I ran it in Konsole and it threw some error about VDPAU. I’m using an AMD card so I don’t see why that would matter anyway. The VLC flatpak plays it fine but I have other issues with the flatpak. I’m using an RX 9070 XT.
Edit: Worth mentioning I didn’t try playing mpeg2 videos in this weird git version after I saw this UI. I doubt it would fix it anyway.
If it doesn’t work, give MPV a try !
MPV is for linux what VLC is for Windows…The best player !
I was also a long time VLC player user when I was on Windows. But had also some issues and switched over to MPV !
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mpv/
https://mpv.io/
I would, problem is no support for DVD and Blu-ray menus.
Oh ? Longtime I haven’t run any real DVD so I didn’t though that was a thing !
Yeah if that’s an important feature I guess it won’t work :/
Yeah, sadly. I think it used to support it but was removed for some reason. I hate relying on VLC but it’s the only viable Linux option.
Your missing vlc-plugins-all.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/vlc-plugins-all/
I have all the plugins installed.
Sure but if you’re using weird flatpak versions of VLC those plugins won’t be invoked because the idea of a flatpak is that it brings it’s own plugins. Remove the non-standard versions you installed, put back the regular vlc package from the main repo and it’ll work.
I know. I installed the flatpak after trying the version in the Arch repos.
Have you tried usung another video output. This is what solved a similar issue for me some years ago. It was on an Intel system though.
https://wiki.videolan.org/Modify_Video_Output/
I found a solution. The CachyOS repos and kernel appear to work much better on my system. Installing them and rebooting fixed my issues.