VLC not playing video properly on Manjaro (black screen with audio only)

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@vernonterra

App version: VLC 3.0.20

Updates seem not working, latest is 3.0.21.

If nothing works, try this:

In VLC go Preferences → Input/codecs, hardware acceleration and select disabled or VA-API.

VLC black screen but audio playing(any video format)

Whatever video i try to run on vlc, just blackscreens on me. The audio plays normally, the video track is correct, but the vieo output is black. I suspect this might be some driver error. This issue seems to persist in any video format be it mp4, mkv or even m3u8. mpv player shows no such signs though. This is what i got after running a video on vlc via terminal: vlc test.mp4 …