VLC stopped working after update!

[cscs]

@Archie1

Firstly there is no way to specify a buffer (in terms of seconds or minutes) or playing bit rate. Secondly its support for streaming/casting is limited, or even downloading online/stream content. Thirdly it is difficult to determine if it is using HW Encoding or SW Encoding. Finally customizing or tinkering with it, unlike VLC, is next to impossible.
With MPV most of the controls require us to master command line or keystrokes. With VLC that is not the case. We only need to right click or look at the UI to get these.

I think you posted the same queries acrossed different threads but here again I guess we will mention that ..

@Archie1

Firstly there is no way to specify a buffer (in terms of seconds or minutes) or playing bit rate.

False?
--demuxer-max-bytes
https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#demuxer
If you mean encoding well that depends on the encoder and as such these
--ovcopts-add=b= --ovcopts-add=bufsize=

@Archie1

Secondly its support for streaming/casting is limited, or even downloading online/stream content.

I’m not sure about that.
I think mpv might have been the most used application for exactly these kinds of purposes .. like if someone is running linux on a potato and cant get decent playback in their browser and so send all video to be opened in a desktop video player .. that would be mpv or some frontend 9 times out of 10.
You know this kind of stuff: https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/watch-youtube-videos-on-mpv-player

@Archie1

Thirdly it is difficult to determine if it is using HW Encoding or SW Encoding.

How?

@Archie1

Finally customizing or tinkering with it, unlike VLC, is next to impossible.

This doesnt really make sense to me.
mpv initially had no gui, not even a mouse-over playback menu thing.
Now it does .. but its just that an “On Screen Controller”, technically no window borders or similar.

DOCS/man/osc.rst

You can build … anything .. on top of or instead of that, including those controls;

GitHub - tomasklaen/uosc: Feature-rich minimalist proximity-based UI for MPV...

Or a whole application using libmpv .. which is what software like dragon and haruna and smplayer are.

@Archie1

wont that be a problem? If we want to remove VLC entirely then libvlc has to go too. It is part of VLC.
Ideally we want to depend only on the DE provided video/music player. Not multiple players like mpv/vlc/Haruna/etc.

This is already answered above.
VLC is actually the sore thumb here.
Haruna is from KDE.
https://apps.kde.org/haruna/

@Archie1

what is replacing Phonon? I was under the impression that it gives an abstraction layer for applications to use. Which is a good thing to have.

Nothing is replacing phonon.
Its simply that it will no longer be a hard dependency of a number of packages it previously was.
So .. if you dont care about being able to actually play the video thumbnail preview in dolphin .. then you are not required to have phonon installed to support it.
This is roughly the same for all the packages mentioned - if you dont care about active video previews/playback in gwenview (like a normal person) then you will not be required to have the supporting phonon packages for it.

Of course, as dalto notes above, everyone is still free to use whatever they want.

But every time someone says VLC is ‘the standard linux video player’ or something similar then the thoroughly sweaty and annoyed ghost of past me in a buenos aires apartment trying to get Star Wars sound and video to play on a chromebook is summoned.

[huebi]

Shouldn’t we do

yay -S  --asdeps vlc-plugins-all

instead, to install it as an optional dependency?

[dalto]

@huebi

instead, to install it as an optional dependency?

This is hotly contested.

Personally, yes, I would recommend installing it as a dependency so that when you remove vlc/libvlc it will become an orphan.

However, others believe optional dependencies should be installed explicitly.

[emk2203]

Just to add the most appealing control for mpv (uosc is still lacking in my eyes):

ModernZ OSC for mpv

This is one of the nicest interfaces for a media player IMHO.

[vitaminace33]

vlc-plugin-x26{4,5} seem to be useless. vlc-plugin-ffmpeg does the trick. It baffles me that it depends on ffmpeg4.4 while current version is 7.1…

[vitaminace33]

Has someone else experienced subtitles not working? Installing vlc-plugin-srt by itself does nothing, I had to install vlc-plugins-extra.

[cscs]

$ pacman -Si vlc | grep -i subtit
                  vlc-plugin-ass: for SSA/ASS subtitle codec support
                  vlc-plugin-freetype: for subtitle and on screen display text rendering support
                  vlc-plugin-srt: for SRT subtitle file support

[thefrog]

So after all this split I noticed that I can’t play a DVD in VLC anymore. I can play the dvd fine with mpv and so am not really worried about it. however If others use VLC to play DVD’s then there may be other packages required My only interest would be for the menu option of a DVD. (play, scenes, bonus, etc)

I know its the split as VLC on the ISO will play the same DVD that wont play on my system.

here is the current error

 thefrog@thepad:~🖝  vlc /dev/sr0
VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)
[00007f6ea0c13250] main decoder error: Codec `mpgv' (MPEG-1/2 Video) is not supported.
[00007f6ea0c13250] main decoder error: Codec `mpgv' (MPEG-1/2 Video) is not supported.
[00007f6ea0c13250] main decoder error: Codec `mpgv' (MPEG-1/2 Video) is not supported.
[00007f6ea0c13250] main decoder error: Codec `mpgv' (MPEG-1/2 Video) is not supported.
[00007f6ea0001500] filesystem stream error: read error: Input/output error
[00007f6ea0c14ff0] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented

Here is the error when I run vlc from command line but try to open the disk through the menu
vlc

VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)
[000055bf0dbaeae0] main playlist: playlist is empty
[000055bf0dbedc10] main interface error: option cd-audio does not exist

What I have can someone see what I possibly am missing

 thefrog@thepad:~🖝  pacman -Qs vlc
local/libvlc 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - library
local/vlc 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player
local/vlc-cli 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - command line interface
local/vlc-gui-qt 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Qt GUI
local/vlc-plugin-a52dec 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ATSC A/52 (AC-3) plugin
local/vlc-plugin-alsa 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ALSA plugins
local/vlc-plugin-dav1d 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - dav1d AV1 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-dbus 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Dbus plugin
local/vlc-plugin-dbus-screensaver 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - dbus screensaver plugin
local/vlc-plugin-faad2 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FAAD2 AAC plugin
local/vlc-plugin-flac 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FLAC plugin
local/vlc-plugin-gnutls 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - GnuTLS plugin
local/vlc-plugin-inflate 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - inflate plugin
local/vlc-plugin-journal 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Systemd journal plugin
local/vlc-plugin-jpeg 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - JPEG plugin
local/vlc-plugin-lua 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Lua scripting plugins
local/vlc-plugin-mpg123 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MPG1/2/3 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-opus 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Opus plugin
local/vlc-plugin-png 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - PNG plugin
local/vlc-plugin-pulse 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - PulseAudio plugins
local/vlc-plugin-shout 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - shoutcast plugin
local/vlc-plugin-speex 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Speex plugins
local/vlc-plugin-tag 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - tag plugin
local/vlc-plugin-theora 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Theora plugins
local/vlc-plugin-twolame 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - TwoLAME plugins
local/vlc-plugin-vorbis 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Vorbis plugin
local/vlc-plugin-vpx 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - VP8 and VP9 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-xml 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - XML plugin
local/vlc-plugins-base 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - base plugins
local/vlc-plugins-video-output 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - video output plugins

Edit: forgot to add the error for when through menu.

[raiin]

did you install all the vlc plugins?

sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all

might as well update your vlc to:

3.0.21-27

[thefrog]

@raiin

vlc-plugins-all

No I didn’t do all as I really don’t use vlc very much. As I said It plays fine through mpv so I’m not that concerned however there may be others with the issue so I brought it up.

it does seem it would be easier to do all but why do I need all? I mean it worked before the split. I get the idea behind it but if I have to install it and more back then its not even worth the player in my opinion. This seems like a very unnecessary thing for a user to have to go through just to use a piece of software that should “just Work”

[raiin]

if you dont want to install all. you may try to install plugins one by one:
since you dont have DVD, Blu-ray plugins that might be the cause

[thefrog]

I’m not doing all that. Really not worth it. I only have it as a habit of installing it. I’ve been using mpv for the probably last 6 months now and have questioned myself several times about why I didn’t move sooner.

At this point this just made VLC completely useless for me and I suppose I will just uninstall it from the desktop. It still plays music just fine on my radiohead so until I decide to convert all the playlist (xspf) I have I’ll just use it for that on that machine.

[raiin]

well vlc is a complete package although bloated with sometimes useless plugins
comeback later when they update it to 4.0 with new user interface added
they might as well fix some old issue

[EOS]

@thefrog

can someone see what I possibly am missing

VLC media player - ArchWiki

vlc-plugin-dvd and libdvdcss?

[dalto]

@thefrog

can someone see what I possibly am missing

It looks like you are missing vlc-plugin-dvd

[thefrog]

I installed the vlc-plugin-dvd and still no glory

 thefrog@thepad:~🖝  vlc
VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)
[0000563b1de594a0] main playlist: playlist is empty
[0000563b1de999e0] main interface error: option cd-audio does not exist
[00007f0610001130] dvdnav demux: DVD Title: JURASSIC_WORLD
[00007f0610001130] dvdnav demux: DVD Serial Number: 471c690b
[00007f0610001130] dvdnav demux: DVD Title (Alternative): R0
[00007f0610001130] dvdnav demux: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 01
[00007f0610001130] dvdnav demux: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
[00007f0610001130] dvdnav demux: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient
[00007f06100643c0] main decoder error: Codec `mpgv' (MPEG-1/2 Video) is not supported.
[00007f06100643c0] main decoder error: Codec `mpgv' (MPEG-1/2 Video) is not supported.
[0000563b1de6b400] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f06100643c0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f06100643c0] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.
[0000563b1de6b400] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f06100643c0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f06100643c0] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.

Thanks Again it plays just fine under MPV so anyone using VLC it appears your going to need to install the vlc-plugins-all or go through all of them

the link that @EOS provided also showed vlc-plugins-extra however installing this so far has also not given me any glory. and it installed a bunch of crap now i have these errors and no sound

 thefrog@thepad:~🖝  vlc
VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)
[0000556a5b343030] main playlist: playlist is empty
[00007f99d4001130] dvdnav demux: DVD Title: JURASSIC_WORLD
[00007f99d4001130] dvdnav demux: DVD Serial Number: 471c690b
[00007f99d4001130] dvdnav demux: DVD Title (Alternative): R0
[00007f99d4001130] dvdnav demux: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 01
[00007f99d4001130] dvdnav demux: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
[00007f99d4001130] dvdnav demux: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient
[0000556a5b385a70] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f99d41e3aa0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f99d41e3aa0] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.
[0000556a5b385a70] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f99d41e3aa0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f99d41e3aa0] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd820] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dd1a0] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01cf230] main scale error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01dd1a0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[00007f99c01dce10] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99c01cf230] main scale error: Failed to create video converter
[00007f99d4196f80] libmpeg2 decoder error: DpbUnlinkPicture called on an invalid picture
[00007f99d4196f80] libmpeg2 decoder error: DpbUnlinkPicture called on an invalid picture
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[00007f99d8000c90] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR  is called too late (pts_delay increased to 300 ms)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[00007f99d8000c90] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR  is called too late (jitter of 9135 ms ignored)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[00007f99d8000c90] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR  is called too late (jitter of 9144 ms ignored)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[0000556a5b385a70] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.
[0000556a5b385a70] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.
[0000556a5b385a70] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.
[0000556a5b385a70] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.
[0000556a5b385a70] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f99d4196f80] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.

here is updated vlc-plugins

 thefrog@thepad:~🖝  pacman -Qs vlc
local/libvlc 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - library
local/vlc 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player
local/vlc-cli 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - command line interface
local/vlc-gui-qt 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Qt GUI
local/vlc-plugin-a52dec 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ATSC A/52 (AC-3) plugin
local/vlc-plugin-aalib 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ASCII art video output plugin
local/vlc-plugin-alsa 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ALSA plugins
local/vlc-plugin-aom 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - AOM AV1 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-archive 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - stream extractor plugin
local/vlc-plugin-aribb24 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ARIB STD-B24 plugins
local/vlc-plugin-aribb25 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - ARIB STD-B25 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-ass 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SSA/ASS subtitle plugin
local/vlc-plugin-avahi 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - mDNS/DNS-SD plugin
local/vlc-plugin-bluray 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Blu-ray plugin
local/vlc-plugin-caca 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Color ASCII art video output plugin
local/vlc-plugin-cddb 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - CDDB plugin
local/vlc-plugin-chromecast 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Chromecast plugin
local/vlc-plugin-dav1d 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - dav1d AV1 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-dbus 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Dbus plugin
local/vlc-plugin-dbus-screensaver 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - dbus screensaver plugin
local/vlc-plugin-dca 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - DTS Coherent Acoustics plugin
local/vlc-plugin-dvb 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - DVB plugins
local/vlc-plugin-dvd 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - DVD plugins
local/vlc-plugin-faad2 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FAAD2 AAC plugin
local/vlc-plugin-flac 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - FLAC plugin
local/vlc-plugin-freetype 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Freetype plugin
local/vlc-plugin-gme 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Game music emulation plugin
local/vlc-plugin-gnutls 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - GnuTLS plugin
local/vlc-plugin-inflate 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - inflate plugin
local/vlc-plugin-journal 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Systemd journal plugin
local/vlc-plugin-jpeg 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - JPEG plugin
local/vlc-plugin-kate 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - kate plugin
local/vlc-plugin-lirc 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Infrared remote control plugin
local/vlc-plugin-live555 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - live555 RTP/RSTP client plugin
local/vlc-plugin-lua 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Lua scripting plugins
local/vlc-plugin-mad 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MPEG Audio Decoder plugin
local/vlc-plugin-matroska 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Matroska plugin
local/vlc-plugin-mdns 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - mDNS plugin
local/vlc-plugin-modplug 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MOD plugin
local/vlc-plugin-mpeg2 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MPEG2 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-mpg123 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MPG1/2/3 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-mtp 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MTP plugins
local/vlc-plugin-musepack 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - MusePack plugin
local/vlc-plugin-nfs 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - NFS plugin
local/vlc-plugin-opus 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Opus plugin
local/vlc-plugin-png 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - PNG plugin
local/vlc-plugin-pulse 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - PulseAudio plugins
local/vlc-plugin-quicksync 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Intel QuickSync plugin
local/vlc-plugin-samplerate 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - samplerate plugin
local/vlc-plugin-sdl 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SDL plugin
local/vlc-plugin-sftp 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SFTP plugin
local/vlc-plugin-shout 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - shoutcast plugin
local/vlc-plugin-soxr 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SoX Resampler plugin
local/vlc-plugin-speex 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Speex plugins
local/vlc-plugin-srt 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - SRT plugins
local/vlc-plugin-tag 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - tag plugin
local/vlc-plugin-theora 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Theora plugins
local/vlc-plugin-twolame 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - TwoLAME plugins
local/vlc-plugin-udev 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - udev plugin
local/vlc-plugin-upnp 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - UPnP plugin
local/vlc-plugin-vorbis 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - Vorbis plugin
local/vlc-plugin-vpx 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - VP8 and VP9 plugin
local/vlc-plugin-xml 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - XML plugin
local/vlc-plugin-zvbi 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - VBI plugins
local/vlc-plugins-base 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - base plugins
local/vlc-plugins-extra 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - extra plugins
local/vlc-plugins-video-output 3.0.21-26
    Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player - video output plugins

I do also have libdvdcss installed

 thefrog@thepad:~🖝  pacman -Qs libdvdcss
local/libdvdcss 1.4.3-2
    Portable abstraction library for DVD decryption

FYI I did do a reboot and still no glory.

[raiin]

debug log indicate it has something todo with a52 (ac3) audio
reset the audio settings or reset preference then try again.

i wonder if this thing occur only when they split package? or is it an issue before?

[EOS]

I’d try to install one more:
extra/vlc-plugin-ffmpeg 3.0.21-26

but this one:
[00007f06100643c0] main decoder error: Codec `a52 ' (A52 Audio (aka AC3)) is not supported.

you do have installed:
extra/vlc-plugin-a52dec 3.0.21-26

I don’t know what the audio error is about.

You’re already starting to have most of the packages of vlc-plugins-all installed.

[thefrog]

The dvd plays just fine if I boot up into the ISO (mercury) and play from that version of VLC. (yes i was curious if it was the split or if it was some new kind of drm stuff)

[thefrog]

yeah I was just about to go ahead and do all. but I figure if someone else has the issue and there is an easier way then they would appreciate not needing to install a bunch of stuff not needed.

UPDATE:
went ahead and bit the bullet and installed all. Now it plays the dvd. Not sure what individual packages are needed and I don’t know how a New install of VLC will act. However I go back to my earlier statement of this is just a lot of trouble for a USER who just want’s to have it work.

Thank God I discovered MPV non of the thrills but it works.