VLC player closes right after startup with no output (without trying to play video)

echo $VLC_VERBOSE
3
vlc
VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)

That is all output that i’m getting right now when trying to run vlc

There is a backstory tho. I have found myself unable to play videos on my pc using any player. I decided to focus on VLC. VLC used to be able to open and to play videos, but after some play time it would crash with erros about not found libraries. I tried multiple various solutions (which would be problematic to recap) and i did reinstall it quite some times. After one of those installations it just refused to open and to provide any output. This blocked me with my attempts. I’m still unable to play videos with any of the video players list of which I took from arch wiki. If you would assist me with the silent startup crash that would already be very helpful. Thanks.

Hi and welcome,

To get started on what may be a general graphics issue please provide the output of the following 2 commands;

inxi -Farz
mhwd -li -l
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Here is inxi -Farz

  System:
    Kernel: 6.1.112-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
      clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
      parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
      root=UUID=76d3ee6e-0667-494e-9583-89f022a4a75c rw quiet apparmor=1
      security=apparmor resume=UUID=5a1ab977-b733-4551-8be1-68738f7028f9
      udev.log_priority=3
    Desktop: Sway v: 1.9 with: waybar tools: swayidle avail: swaylock
      lm: greetd Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
  Machine:
    Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15s-fq5xxx v: N/A
      serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
    Mobo: HP model: 8A20 v: 20.22 serial: <superuser required>
      part-nu: 7P0Z9EA#AKD uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.19
      date: 07/03/2023
  Battery:
    ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 34.8/41.0 Wh (84.8%)
      volts: 12.6 min: 11.3 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
      status: full cycles: 185
  CPU:
    Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
      arch: Alder Lake level: v3 note: check built: 2021+
      process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 4
      microcode: 0x434
    Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 10 threads: 12 mt: 2 tpc: 2
      st: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 928 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; i-2x32
      KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 6.5 MiB desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 12 MiB
      desc: 1x12 MiB
    Speed (MHz): avg: 2694 min/max: 400/4400:3300 scaling:
      driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 2694 2: 2694 3: 2694
      4: 2694 5: 2694 6: 2694 7: 2694 8: 2694 9: 2694 10: 2694 11: 2694 12: 2694
      bogomips: 59916
    Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
    Vulnerabilities:
    Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
    Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
    Type: l1tf status: Not affected
    Type: mds status: Not affected
    Type: meltdown status: Not affected
    Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
    Type: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
    Type: retbleed status: Not affected
    Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
    Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
      prctl
    Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
      sanitization
    Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
      conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
    Type: srbds status: Not affected
    Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Graphics:
    Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
      vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2
      process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+ ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1
      empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a8
      class-ID: 0300
    Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
      rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b75e
      class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
    Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.4 compositor: Sway v: 1.9
      driver: gpu: i915 d-rect: 3840x1080 display-ID: 1
    Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: right model: Dell P2422H serial: <filter>
      built: 2022 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 scale: 1
      size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes:
      max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
    Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,left model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1538
      built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 scale: 1
      size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
      modes: 1920x1080
    API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Audio:
    Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio
      vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
      alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
      chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
    Device-2: Logitech G435 Wireless Gaming Headset
      driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
      lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1.1:4 chip-ID: 046d:0acb class-ID: 0300
      serial: <filter>
    API: ALSA v: k6.1.112-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api tools: N/A
    Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
    Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
    Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.2.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
      status: active 2: pipewire-media-session status: active 3: pipewire-alsa
      type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli
  Network:
    Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
      vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce
      pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
      chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280
    IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
    Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet driver: cdc_ncm type: USB rev: 3.2
      speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 2-3:2 chip-ID: 0b95:1790
      class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
    IF: enp0s20f0u3c2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: half mac: <filter>
    Info: services: mld, NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  Bluetooth:
    Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.0
      speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 0bda:b00c
      class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
    Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
      lmp-v: 10 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
  Drives:
    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 205.84 GiB (43.2%)
    SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
    ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Phison model: PSEJN512GA87EC0
      size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
      lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: HPE36P01 temp: 23.9 C
      scheme: GPT
  Partition:
    ID-1: / raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 459.43 GiB (98.20%)
      used: 204.92 GiB (44.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
      used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  Swap:
    Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
      compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
    ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 938.2 MiB (10.4%)
      priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
  Sensors:
    System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A
    Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
  Info:
    Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 7.44 GiB used: 5.22 GiB (70.2%)
    Processes: 301 Power: uptime: 10h 4m states: freeze,mem,disk
      suspend: s2idle avail: deep wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown,
      reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 2.97 GiB services: upowerd
      Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
    Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: foot
      inxi: 3.3.36

And here is mhwd -li -l

Installed PCI configs:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           video-linux            2024.05.06                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!
>0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:46a8) Display controller Intel Corporation:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           video-linux            2024.05.06                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI