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.
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.