VLC opens and closes immediately when I play video files

I made a clean install on my laptop yesterday and installed VLC via command line.

VLC crashes immediately as soon as I play any MP4 file. MP3 files play fine.

I reinstalled Ubuntu. The problem persists.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. VLC version 2.2.2 Weatherwax.

I get a dialog "Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error"

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3 Answers

Open VLC Player go to Tools in upper bar and select Preferences. Switch to Video settings, disable Accelerated Video Output and change Output to OpenGL or try other options if OpenGLs are not working.

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I was also facing same problem. My problem was solved using this

sudo apt --reinstall install libgbm1

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I had the same problem. VLC crashed as soon as I opened an mp3 or mp4 file. However, I managed to fix it on my machine by running the following commands.

Note: Uninstall the current VLC, if any, then run the commands

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install snapd

$ sudo snap install vlc

I then restarted my machine, and everything was working as expected.

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