Just did a system update and VLC was one of the updates. Now VLC doesn’t work right. During the update there was more than a dozen new dependencies for it. They looked to be codec’s. I can get audio but not video to work. When I play a video a window pops up with errors in it. Just wondering if anybody else has had this problem? I tried using (sudo pacman -Rdd vlc) to remove it and then re-install it but the outcome was the same. I tried rebooting the computer after install the same problem persists! Ultimately I just ended up removing VLC. It’s too bad, cause VLC had been my favorite video player. I might try the flatpac version and see if that one works.
This is confusing me. When I first read this Topic, I was on my RPi 5 device on Sway.
I tried streaming a movie from my LAN to VLC and it worked perfectly. Watched a little Quigley down under.
Went to my x86_64 machine with Plasma, and VLC is not working properly. I cannot access my MP3 files, or video files on the LAN.
I copied a .mp4 video file from my LAN server to a local Directory. VLC threw an error
Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "h265" (H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))
EDIT
I followed up and tried playing a MP3 and it worked properly as reported by @Jim
/EDIT
Now that I think about it, Archlinux ARM is usually behind Archlinux with updated packages. My guess this will show up in ARM soon.
Pudge
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The same, i did an update with yay, and vlc is reporting missing codecs error..ugh
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Just did the update here. . . looks like it’s borked. . . . my video doesn’t play but the sound does. . . interesting. . .
Rich 
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Don’t give up too soon. You have “Released the Hounds”. It will probably get fixed in a day or two. Or three.
Pudge
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Same here. Had to install some plugins. Probably there’s something messed up with dependencies (?)…
lists some optional plugins, e.g. vlc-plugin-ffmpeg, vlc-plugin-x264 and vlc-plugin-x265
Now VLC works again.
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The above allowed me to play both MP3 and MP4 locally.
However, VLC still does not recognize miniDLNA on my LAN. Still cannot stream from my LAN. 
Everyone has a different use case they have to full fill. In my case via miniDLNA I stream Audio, IMage, and Videos to multiple computers in the house. As far as I know, VLC and Rythmbox are the only two players that can do that. So to me, everything else is garbage.
Pudge
I installed the flatpak version and it works.
I think mpv can ?
But I do mostly agree that
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Everyone, sorry for getting Off Topic here.
@cscs Thanks for the lead on Macast media player. I will have to check it out.
EDIT:
Ah, Macast is in the AUR which is probably why I never heard of it. Still going to check it out.
Pudge
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have you tried the upnp plugin?
might need others as well - I don’t have DLNA here…
or try installing all plugins:
vlc-plugins-all
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Thanks, vlc-plugin-upnp by itself did the trick. Streaming now up and running.
I thought upnp was so universal that vlc wouldn’t need it’s own version.
Good catch.
Pudge
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@bin-da , @Pudge how did VLC work prior to installation of vlc-plugin-upnp? I mean how was it successful in streaming from LAN.
I tried (sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all) this worked!
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The thinking behind splitting out vlc into separate plugin packages is set out here:
In my case, installing vlc-plugin-ffmpeg and vlc-plugins-extra seems to have restored all the functions I want from vlc.
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Also stumbled about this issue yesterday. After trying out Fedora 42 two days ago I decided to go back to EOS yesterday.
After installation from latest EOS ISO I was wondering, that VLC was installed already. Last time I installed EOS from that same ISO I had to install VLC by myself. There was an update popping up with lots of VLC plugins and dependencies. After that Arch-Update told me that the package vlc is an orphan package … So I tried removing and reinstalling VLC. In Arch-Update it wasn’t marked as orphan anymore. But VLC didn’t work. Tried to play a video file, but the h264 codec was missing.
Today I wanted to look for an issue here and found that topic. When searching for “vlc” on Arch Linux Package Search, many plugins are found.
There are packages like vlc-plugins-all, vlc-plugins-base and vlc-plugins-extra. Maybe the all-package will work, because base and extra are included? … Have to try out.
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list all plugins
extra/vlc 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player
extra/vlc-cli 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - command line interface
extra/vlc-gui-ncurses 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Ncurses TUI
extra/vlc-gui-qt 3.0.21-26 [installé]
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Qt GUI
extra/vlc-gui-skins2 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Skins2 GUI
extra/vlc-plugin-a52dec 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ATSC A/52 (AC-3) plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-aalib 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ASCII art video output plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-alsa 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ALSA plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-aom 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - AOM AV1 plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-archive 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - stream extractor plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-aribb24 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ARIB STD-B24 plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-aribb25 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ARIB STD-B25 plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-ass 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SSA/ASS subtitle plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-avahi 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - mDNS/DNS-SD plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-bluray 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Blu-ray plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-caca 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Color ASCII art video output plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-cddb 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - CDDB plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-chromecast 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Chromecast plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-dav1d 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - dav1d AV1 plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-dbus 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Dbus plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-dbus-screensaver 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - dbus screensaver plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-dca 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - DTS Coherent Acoustics plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-dvb 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - DVB plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-dvd 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - DVD plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-faad2 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FAAD2 AAC plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-ffmpeg 3.0.21-26 [installé]
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FFMPEG plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-firewire 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FireWire plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-flac 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FLAC plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FluidSynth plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-freetype 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Freetype plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-gme 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Game music emulation plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-gnutls 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - GnuTLS plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-gstreamer 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - GStreamer plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-inflate 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - inflate plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-jack 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - JACK plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-journal 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Systemd journal plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-jpeg 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - JPEG plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-kate 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - kate plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-kwallet 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Kwallet keystore plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-libsecret 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - libsecret/gnome-keyring plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-lirc 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Infrared remote control plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-live555 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - live555 RTP/RSTP client plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-lua 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Lua scripting plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-mad 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MPEG Audio Decoder plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-matroska 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Matroska plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-mdns 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - mDNS plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-modplug 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MOD plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-mpeg2 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MPEG2 plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-mpg123 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MPG1/2/3 plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-mtp 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MTP plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-musepack 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MusePack plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-nfs 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - NFS plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-notify 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - notification plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-ogg 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - OGG plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-opus 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Opus plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-png 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - PNG plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-pulse 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - PulseAudio plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-quicksync 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Intel QuickSync plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-samplerate 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - samplerate plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-sdl 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SDL plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-sftp 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SFTP plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-shout 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - shoutcast plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-smb 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SMB plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-soxr 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SoX Resampler plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-speex 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Speex plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-srt 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SRT plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-svg 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SVG plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-tag 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - tag plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-theora 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Theora plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-twolame 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - TwoLAME plugins
extra/vlc-plugin-udev 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - udev plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-upnp 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - UPnP plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-vorbis 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Vorbis plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-vpx 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - VP8 and VP9 plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-x264 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - H264/AVC encoding
extra/vlc-plugin-x265 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - H265/HEVC encoding
extra/vlc-plugin-xml 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - XML plugin
extra/vlc-plugin-zvbi 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - VBI plugins
extra/vlc-plugins-all 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - all plugins
extra/vlc-plugins-base 3.0.21-26 [installé]
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - base plugins
extra/vlc-plugins-extra 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - extra plugins
extra/vlc-plugins-video-output 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - video output plugins
extra/vlc-plugins-visualization 3.0.21-26
Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - visualization plugins
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Just installed package vlc-plugins-all and VLC is working now as it worked before. Let’s see what the future brings … 
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Same issue here. After the most recent update, VLC could only play music. Video files would not play at all. Installing vlc-plugins-all did the trick. All is well now.
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Thanks for that, this worked for me as well!
So annoying if you just update your system and playing local videos suddenly breaks.
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