I was having issues playing some files in VLC due to missing codecs, so I did an internet search and discovered the whole “RPM Fusion” thing. Installed a bunch of codecs from there, and now I don’t get any more “missing codec” errors, but I do get flaky, weird, jumpy audio from literally everything I play now. But only in VLC.
It’ll play about half a second of audio, and then blank out like I muted it. If I fast-forward or rewind, I’ll get the same half-second of audio and then nothing. If I FF or REW several times, most of the time I can get it to start playing the audio regularly. Until the next time I fast-forward or rewind. Then I have to jump around again until it decides to stabilize the audio again.
Why is it doing this? And only in VLC? The built-in “Dragon Player” doesn’t do this. Don’t they both use the same codec files?
I’m running VLC version 3.0.22 “Vetinari”, Fedora 43 (KDE Plasma), with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU and an AMD RX 9070 XT GPU. I assume it came from the “flatpack” repo? I’m honestly not sure – there were a lot of terminal commands I typed in, and I don’t remember most of them.
Any help would be appreciated.