How to fix VLC in Fedora 40?

[yuntaz (Sakiko Togawa)]

Maybe this is the issue?

VLC not exposing VA-API as a hardware acceleration option

Problem In Fedora 39/40, when running VLC, the option to use VA-API for hardware acceleration is unavailable, as shown in the screenshot below. This happens even if proprietary codecs are installed. [image] This is a notable change from prior releases (where VLC wasn’t available in Fedora, but could be installed from third-party repositories). You can discuss this issue here. Cause Since Fedora 39, VLC is in Fedora main repositories. However, the current VLC version 3.0 requires an old F…