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. Met vriendelijke groeten | Kind regards Dimitri Forster On Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 12:50 AM David C Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > >
