I installed vlc-git from the Chaotic-AUR and I am speechless.
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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.
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
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.
Your missing vlc-plugins-all.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/vlc-plugins-all/
I have all the plugins installed.
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.
the version in the standard Arch repos won’t play any mpeg2 videos. I have all the plugins installed
I know. I installed the flatpak after trying the version in the Arch repos.
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 !
I would, problem is no support for DVD and Blu-ray menus.
Oh ? Longtime I haven’t run any real DVD so I didn’t though that was a thing !
Yeah if that’s an important feature I guess it won’t work :/
Yeah, sadly. I think it used to support it but was removed for some reason. I hate relying on VLC but it’s the only viable Linux option.
I believe that’s the upcoming new look of VLC 4.0 since its still in beta. Its taking them a long time though
I can’t say i’m a fan of it
I get you, a lot of features are not implemented last time I checked.
Maybe a upcoming ui?
Since your using the Bleeding Edge version of VLC I assume that.God, that’s upsetting if true. like at least add the ability to restore the original.
Ugh they GMONEified it :(((
What did you want it to look like?
I wanted it to look the way it did since I started using it at age 12. The UI is completely different.
Is there a theme setting?
Yes, it changed a few things but it did not restore the UI I am familiar with.
Why does it look like what? What about its appearance are you wondering about? It looks normal to me.
Is this a distro-specific UI? It certainly doesn’t look like that on Windows, Debian or Linux Mint.
Doesn’t it use whatever theme you have your DE set to by default?
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.
Is this a Mandela effect or something? Have I been using a completely different VLC from everyone else all these years?
Oh, you mean it looks different than it used to? Maybe the defaults changed? I notice that with the beta version sometimes.
So the UI is still astronomically tiny in 2025 with version 4?
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)
