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

[nikgnomic]

@discobot

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-all meta-package, which will pull in all available plugins.

 sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all

@Frog

VLC Media Player fails to read many media files on the most recent image of Manjaro XFCE ISO image

Providing VLC as media player (#191) · Issues · Profiles & Settings / iso-profiles · GitLab

The idea of VLC splits was to actually remove VLC from Plasma

VLC is no longer included in 25.0.9 ISOs
drop vlc (00f2affe) · Commits · Profiles & Settings / iso-profiles · GitLab

@nikgnomic

If users prefer a monolithic version of VLC with all features:

AUR (en) - vlc-git

I’ve decided to keep this as a monolithic package because split packaging is prone to failure and very slow to process ~84 subpackages.

If users prefer a different media player, Manjaro Hello Applications can install Kodi, mpv, Parole, SM Player or Totem