Install vlc-plugin-dvd to support dvd playback
Or vlc-plugins-all for all VLC plugins
$ pamac info vlc Name : vlc Version : 3.0.21-31 Description : Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework URL : https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Licences : GPL-2.0-or-later LGPL-2.1-or-later Repository : extra Installed Size : 42.0 MB Groups : -- Depends On : bash hicolor-icon-theme vlc-gui-qt=3.0.21 Optional Dependencies : vlc-gui-ncurses: for ncurses TUI vlc-gui-skins2: for Skins2 GUI vlc-plugins-all: for all plugins vlc-plugins-extra: for extra plugins vlc-plugins-visualization: for visualization plugins vlc-plugin-aalib: for ASCII art video output support vlc-plugin-aom: for AOM AV1 codec support vlc-plugin-aribb24: for ARIB STD-24 codec and demux support vlc-plugin-aribb25: for ARIB STD-25 stream filter support vlc-plugin-ass: for SSA/ASS subtitle codec support vlc-plugin-avahi: for mDNS/DNS-SD services discovery support vlc-plugin-bluray: for Blu-ray access support vlc-plugin-caca: for color ASCII art video output support vlc-plugin-cddb: for CDDB access support vlc-plugin-chromecast: for Chromecast stream out support vlc-plugin-dca: for DTS Coherent Acoustics codec support vlc-plugin-dvb: for DVB access, mux and demux support vlc-plugin-dvd: for DVD access support vlc-plugin-ffmpeg: for FFMPEG based access, codec, demux, packetizer, VDPAU, video chroma and video filter support vlc-plugin-firewire: for FireWire device access support vlc-plugin-fluidsynth: for FluidSynth codec support vlc-plugin-freetype: for subtitle and on screen display text rendering support vlc-plugin-gme: for Game Music Emulation demux support vlc-plugin-gstreamer: for GStreamer codec support vlc-plugin-jack: for JACK access and audio output support vlc-plugin-kate: for kate karaoke codec support vlc-plugin-kwallet: for kwallet keystore support vlc-plugin-libsecret: for libsecret keystore support vlc-plugin-lirc: for infrared remote control support vlc-plugin-live555: for RTP/RTSP stream access support vlc-plugin-mad: for MPEG Audio Decoder audio filter support vlc-plugin-matroska: for Matroska demux support vlc-plugin-mdns: for mDNS services discovery support vlc-plugin-modplug: for MOD demux support vlc-plugin-mpeg2: for MPEG2 codec support vlc-plugin-mtp: for MTP device access and discovery support vlc-plugin-musepack: for MusePack demux support vlc-plugin-nfs: for NFS access support vlc-plugin-notify: for notification support vlc-plugin-quicksync: for Intel QuickSync H264/H262 codec support vlc-plugin-samplerate: for samplerate audio filter support vlc-plugin-sdl: for SDL codec support vlc-plugin-sftp: for SFTP access support vlc-plugin-smb: for SMB access support vlc-plugin-soxr: for SoX Resampler audio filter support vlc-plugin-srt: for SRT subtitle file support vlc-plugin-svg: for SVG codec and text renderer support vlc-plugin-udev: for ALSA services discovery support using udev vlc-plugin-upnp: for UPnP services discovery support vlc-plugin-x264: for H264/AVC encoding support vlc-plugin-x265: for H265/HEVC encoding support vlc-plugin-zvbi: for VBI access (also over V4L2) and codec support Required By : -- Optional For : -- Provides : -- Replaces : vlc-plugin Conflicts With : vlc-plugin Packager : Christian Heusel <gromit@archlinux.org> Build Date : Thu 30 Oct 2025 14:46:34 GMT Install Date : Thu 06 Nov 2025 13:19:03 GMT Install Reason : Explicitly installed Validated By : Signature Backup files : --
Stable Update 2025-07-12 - Known Issues and Solutions
VLC does not play (certain) videos
For this update, the VLC packages were split up, and not all codecs may be installed on your system. You can install the additional codecs individually, or install the
vlc-plugins-allmeta-package, which will pull in all available plugins.