VLC Media player cannot play videos and crashes when I open one

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When I try to open a video with vlc media player, the application just crashes, I know there are no issues with the video in question since it works on other players.

I opened vlc in terminal to see if I can find any error messages/codes and it printed:

VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
[000055e20ce9d5d0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[000055e20cf42440] main playlist: playlist is empty
Non-native QFileDialog supports only local files
Non-native QFileDialog supports only local files
Non-native QFileDialog supports only local files
[000055e20cf93a30] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f0c08ceb5f0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[000055e20cf93a30] vlcpulse audio output error: digital pass-through stream connection failure: Not supported
[000055e20cf93a30] main audio output error: module not functional
[00007f0c08ceb5f0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f0bf80073d0] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v5.229.0 (API v229)
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[00007f0bf80073d0] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Which seems to indicate its a driver error? Any ideas how I can install this driver? or am I going down the wrong path here?

Any help would be appreciated :slight_smile:

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Remove libva-vdpau-driver :slightly_smiling_face:

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That worked, awesome, thanks :slight_smile:

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That means the vdpau backend for vaapi was removed.
Is this desirable?
We cant really know without system information.

Likely the above step is unecessary, and rather selecting a good output option in VLC might be preferred. That or replace with something like smplayer that has more sane defaults.

Example link:

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