VLC black screen but audio playing(any video format)

[Arrababiski]

@qruqs

I had an even stranger thing happening to me after the Jan 13th upgrade. In VLC videos played fine, except Xvid encoded videos. Black screen as described above.
Strangest thing was that I could create a screen capture within VLC and this came out okay. I expected a black image.
Solution was to use hardware acceleration VA-API under the FFmpeg decoder, I believe it was set to VD-PAU originally. Even with the old setting, I could convert the video to libx264 codec and it played just fine. I believe there are far too many codecs floating around. Their sheer number make software bloated and things unnecessarily complex.

The culprit is… Mesa 23.3.3.

[Stable Update] 2024-01-13 - Kernels, Systemd, Qt5, Mesa, Dbus, Firefox, Thunderbird

You’re right. I restored again the timeshift snapshot from before the update, repeat all the update except these ten packages and after the reboot had no problem, no artifacts, VLC plays AVI again. lib32-libva-mesa-driver-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-mesa-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-mesa-vdpau-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-vulkan-intel-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-vulkan-radeon-1:23.3.3-1 libva-mesa-driver-1:23.3.3-1 mesa-1:23.3.3-1 mesa-vdpau-1:23.3.3-1 vulkan-intel-1:23.3.3-1 vulkan-radeon-1:23.3.3-1 So I’ll include these packag…