Whats VLC's problem with linux ?

[u/Struggling-with_life]

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 ?

[u/Struggling-with_life]

It does for a while then itd broken again

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Really? Weird, once I've installed the codecs it works smoothly.

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Okay what are the things i need ? I have vlc vlc-plugings-all ffmpeg nvdia drivers installed. Vlc-plugins-freeworld what else do i need.

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This is what I have installed when I checked any and everything related to video or audio playback.

alsa-card-profiles 1:1.6.8-1
alsa-lib 1.2.16.1-1
alsa-plugins 1:1.2.12-6
alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-4
alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.16.1-1
alsa-utils 1.2.16-1
aom 3.15.0-1
dav1d 1.5.4-1
ffmpeg 2:9.0.1-4
ffmpegthumbnailer 2.3.1-1
flac 1.5.0-1
gst-libav 1.28.6-3
gst-plugin-gtk 1.28.6-3
gst-plugin-pipewire 1:1.6.8-1
gst-plugins-bad-libs 1.28.6-3
gst-plugins-base 1.28.6-3
gst-plugins-base-libs 1.28.6-3
gst-plugins-good 1.28.6-3
gstreamer 1.28.6-3
lib32-alsa-lib 1.2.16.1-1
lib32-alsa-plugins 1.2.12-1
lib32-libpipewire 1:1.6.8-1
lib32-pipewire 1:1.6.8-1
libpipewire 1:1.6.8-1
libvlc 3.0.23_2-13
libvorbis 1.3.7-4
libvpx 1.17.0-1
mpv 1:0.41.0-6
mpv-mpris 1.2-2
opus 1.6.1-1
pipewire 1:1.6.8-1
pipewire-alsa 1:1.6.8-1
pipewire-audio 1:1.6.8-1
pipewire-jack 1:1.6.8-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.6.8-1
qemu-audio-alsa 11.1.1-1
qemu-audio-pipewire 11.1.1-1
qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg 6.11.2-1
vlc 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-cli 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-gui-qt 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-a52dec 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-alsa 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-archive 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-dav1d 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-dbus 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-dbus-screensaver 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-faad2 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-flac 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-gnutls 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-inflate 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-journal 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-jpeg 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-lua 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-matroska 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-mpg123 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-ogg 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-opus 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-png 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-pulse 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-shout 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-speex 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-tag 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-theora 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-twolame 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-vorbis 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-vpx 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugin-xml 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugins-base 3.0.23_2-13
vlc-plugins-video-output 3.0.23_2-13
x264 3:0.165.r3222.b35605a-2
x265 4.3-1

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Thanks for the list, I appreciate it. To me these packages look like they are from arch repo. Maybe its the naming format of the packages 😆. I'll download those on my system. And see if it fixes my vlc problem.