That is dependent on the devices/drivers at play.
Some things do not support vdpau.
(and it was initially made for nvidia … its arguable that no other devices should be using it)
The real advice, as mentioned in dozens of other posts, is to configure output and hardware acceleration instead of relying on VLC very broken ‘automatic’ settings.
For example here:
Or better yet … ditch vlc and use mpv with a frontend if necessary like smplayer.
Its just more performant in general … but also its ‘automatic’ actually works at least well enough not to crash.
This does look like its failing when trying to use vaapi.
We know nothing about your system really. So please help us out.
inxi -Fazy
For kernels … I guess you can show us
pacman -Qs '^linux'