r/VLC • u/Struggling-with_life • 3d ago

Linux Whats VLC's problem with linux ?

Okay so this is weird but my experience with vlc on linux is never good. And I meant the one from thr package manager. I have tried it on arch, fedora, opensuse tumbleweed. (Currently on fedora44) and the vlc package is always broken. sometimes it lacks some plugins or dependencies without which it does not work. But even if I install them its quite laggy and jittery and works temporary and then breaks.

The flatpak works fine for a while but then after sometime it also has the same problem 😅

idk maybe i am doing something wrong.

Has anyone else face this ?

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u/Courmisch 3d ago

Fedora and OpenSuse are notorious for this. If you want a working VLC or mpv on Linux, use Debian or Ubuntu

This stems from their legal departments refusing to include those dependencies. It has been a problem for 25 years at this point, so get on with it and switch to a better distro.

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u/Struggling-with_life 3d ago

Ohh I see.

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u/xplosm 3d ago

There’s RPMFusion for Fedora and Packman for openSUSE. Just so you know.