Mint 20.3 VLC sound only, no video

lovecraft1024 · Post by **lovecraft1024** » Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:09 am

Hi,

I upgraded from Mint 19.2 to 20.3 a few days ago and now VLC will not play videos. That is to say, I only get sound from media files that played perfectly well as sound+video with my previous installation.

It seems like it's "trying" to play the video, because the VLC window resizes to the expected size of the video, but the window remains black, or has some remnant of part of the screen that was there before (does not refresh).

This doesn't happen in Celluloid or in Firefox playing Youtube videos, so I guess it's specifically a VLC problem. I'd appreciate any help to debug this.

System: freshly-installed Mint 20.3 with updates, Gigabyte Radeon RX 460 video card, Intel Core i5-8600K CPU @ 3.60GHz...

Thanks,

Charles

MikeNovember · Post by **MikeNovember** » Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:44 am

Hi,

Try the flatpak version of VLC:

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flatpak install org.videolan.VLC

Regards,

MN

lovecraft1024 · Post by **lovecraft1024** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:03 pm

Well, that fixed it - I don't know why, but it did. Thank you.

jay_M · Post by **jay_M** » Thu May 19, 2022 9:34 pm

Got an account just to say *THANKS*. Nothing else I tried worked.

Note: apt remove VLC before installing via flatpak.

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