Hi,
Not a dev but I did run into this problem and fixed it by installing just the extra plugin package with
sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-extra.
Should you still not be able to play a certain media you can install the necessary codec or use the
lazy option and just install the vlc-plugins-all package and not worry about it anymore.
Arch devs,
Updates tonight showed 20+ new vlc-plugins that are now separate from
the main vlc package. The wiki is silent on which were included. There
are a number of reddit threads from the last day about vlc no longer
working due to the plugin issue, is there a list of what (which plugins)
used to be included by vlc before the package was split?
I see there is a plugins-all which presumably installs every plugin,
but I can't tell if that is wildly over-inclusive compared to what vlc
used to provide by default.
Is there a way to figure out what used to be in the default Arch vlc
package that now must be separately installed as a plugin to ensure the
same functionality? The old package before the split used to work quite
well without any muss or fuss.
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.