VLC becoming Default again and again

[jc1685]

I’ve removed VLC because it’s too much trouble to deal with and use MPV without any of the helper apps (smplayer etc.). However, you have to remove the packages that pull it in first. Instructions in the link below.

Phonon Gstreamer is deprecated and no longer has Qt6 support

For phonon-qt5, you have the choice to use phonon-qt5-gstreamer or phonon-qt5-vlc as the backend. This is not the case for phonon-qt6, which only has one backend provider in the official repos: phonon-qt6-vlc If you have any KDE applications that depends on phonon-qt6, pacman will end up installing vlc on your system if you don’t already have it installed—because phonon-qt6 depends on phonon-qt6-vlc, which in turns requires vlc. For mpv users, there is the option of using phonon-qt6-mpv-git in…