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Why does VLC look like this? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip
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I installed vlc-git from the Chaotic-AUR and I am speechless.

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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Any particular reason you're getting VLC from the AUR? Even if it didn't come preinstalled, the pacman version is much better security- and stability-wise

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    Yes, the version in the standard Arch repos won't play any mpeg2 videos. I have all the plugins installed so that's not the issue. I ran it in Konsole and it threw some error about VDPAU. I'm using an AMD card so I don't see why that would matter anyway. The VLC flatpak plays it fine but I have other issues with the flatpak. I'm using an RX 9070 XT.

    Edit: Worth mentioning I didn't try playing mpeg2 videos in this weird git version after I saw this UI. I doubt it would fix it anyway.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If it doesn't work, give MPV a try !

    MPV is for linux what VLC is for Windows...The best player !

    I was also a long time VLC player user when I was on Windows. But had also some issues and switched over to MPV !

    https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mpv/

    https://mpv.io/

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I would, problem is no support for DVD and Blu-ray menus.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I have all the plugins installed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sure but if you're using weird flatpak versions of VLC those plugins won't be invoked because the idea of a flatpak is that it brings it's own plugins. Remove the non-standard versions you installed, put back the regular vlc package from the main repo and it'll work.

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    • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    That's how VLC 4 looks like. It haven't been released yet. If you want the old UI you should look for the latest release instead (VLC 3.0.21)

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Ugh they GMONEified it :(((

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What did you want it to look like?

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wanted it to look the way it did since I started using it at age 12. The UI is completely different.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe a upcoming ui?
    Since your using the Bleeding Edge version of VLC I assume that.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I believe that's the upcoming new look of VLC 4.0 since its still in beta. Its taking them a long time though

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    So the UI is still astronomically tiny in 2025 with version 4?

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why does it look like what? What about its appearance are you wondering about? It looks normal to me.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is this a distro-specific UI? It certainly doesn't look like that on Windows, Debian or Linux Mint.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Doesn't it use whatever theme you have your DE set to by default?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Honestly, I don't know - I haven't fiddled with the themes much on my Linux installations. All I can say is that currently, for the 3.x series, out of the box VLC looks very similar between Windows, Debian (KDE Plasma) and Linux Mint (Cinnamon) - all three of which are arguably different DEs.

    A couple of other comments have flagged that this is the new 4.x UI, which certainly explains the difference.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If that's how the next update is gonna look when it drops next millennia, I hope they have an option to make it look like it currently does. That minimalist look is horrible, in my opinion.

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