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Hi Today after searching in web, i have installed solus Budgie in my system.
Everything works like a charm. However i am unable to open any video files in VLC media player.
MPV player has no issues.
Below is the error i got

Mag@Mag~ $ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)
[0000000000db2570] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0000000000db4e90] main playlist: playlist is empty
Bus error

Please help on this issue.

    I'm currently using it without any issue.
    Perhaps try to reinstall it sudo eopkg it --reinstall vlc

    Thanks for the suggestion, i have done that still same error.

      kyrios I did as per the link, however still having the same issue. So i removed VLC and installed it from which works without any issues. However the version in snap is 3.0.7 and version in solus repos is 3.0.8. I am not sure what might be the issue. Thanks for your help.

        Maggie Try re-install vlc and it's dependencies:

        sudo eopkg it --reinstall vlc libmad libdc1394 harfbuzz libvpx libstdc++ libdvbpsi libgpg-error libxcb x264 x265 gstreamer-1.0-plugins-base libglvnd qt5-svg libssh2 samba qt5-base gstreamer-1.0 fontconfig libgnutls qt5-x11extras libva liba52dec opus libxpm libxinerama libkate ncurses libupnp libshout libbluray taglib libnotify pango libgtk-3 libtheora libmtp freetype2 libcairo faad dbus zlib libmpeg2 libmodplug wayland ffmpeg libvorbis avahi libdvdread libxml2 libspeex fluidsynth libsamplerate libgcc sdl1-image libebml libflac alsa-lib glibc libdvdnav librsvg lua libsecret twolame libatk libpng libxext protobuf libcddb systemd libogg gdk-pixbuf libgcrypt libmatroska sdl1 xcb-util-keysyms dav1d fribidi libjpeg-turbo libx11 pulseaudio libarchive libass microdns glib2 chromaprint

            Justin I tried the above . still the issue persists. Now both versions snap 3.0.7 and 3.0.8 installed. Snap version only works.

              I had similar issue before and I opened a task o here.

              Shortly the fix was by changing some video settings:

              Tools > Preferences > Video > Output.

              Working fine with these options:

              • XVideo output (XCB)
              • X11 video output (XCB)

              With other options sometimes crashes, sometimes flashing and sometimes only blackscreen.

                algent Thanks for pointing out. I tried it before checking broken files it is not worked that time. Now Working fine with these options:

                XVideo output (XCB)
X11 video output (XCB)

                When i change to Auto or other options it crashes or closes. Snap version didn't have these problems.

                  I can confirm that on my fresh install of Solus 4 (Macbook 7,1) VLC was crashing when opening a DVD (haven't tried other video files) until I changed the video output to "XVideo output (XCB)"

                  9 days later

                  I had the same problem recently, where VLC freezes when trying to start playback. Changing to "XVideo output (XCB)" fixed the problem!

                  Thanks

                  I did not have to do this just a few days ago, so I'm wondering if it is related to a recent system update? But I was not able to find out what could have changed, I'm not very experienced in troubleshooting..

                    conrad82 To show last 5 items of your history, type:
                    eopkg history --last 5
                    or simply eopkg historyto show all

                    Each change you made has a number.

                    Example rollback
                    Imagine your look your history list and your last installation, or update, was number 250, then to go back to the previous you would type:
                    sudo eopkg history --takeback 249

                    For more help type:
                    eopkg help history

                    Credit goes to @johano , he posted this in another thread.

                        v3l0ct Thanks! This was really helpful. I had problems with Steam "Remote Play" (Streaming) which would freeze after 1 frame or something like that.
                        Rolling back fixed the problem. But after gradually installing all the packages again, it is also still working. So I got it working but I don't know why it broke in the first place ¯\(ツ)/¯

                          a year later

                          Me too I pulled my hair out with vlc and its beautiful black screen after opening a file, impossible to do anything except a hard shutdown afterwards. The solution mentioned above, putting the video output to:
                          XVideo output (XCB)
                          also solved my worries, I can finally play audio and video files, and even watch TV. Thanks to all of you.