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Issue: VLC player opens up separate windows for video and audio in Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

I am using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and I installed VLC player from snap store (version: 3.0.16).

but when I open up a video file with VLC player, it opens up a window for the video and another window for the audio.

I have tried few solutions mentioned in this website, but it did not work for me. How can I solve this issue?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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With Nvidia proprietary Graphic-Driver do this: https://askubuntu.com/a/1384279

Change Video Output setting and also change Input/Codecs -> Hardware-accelerated decoding setting to: VDPAU.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Also got this issue with the snap version 3.0.16. Removing /home/<user-name>/snap/vlc/current/.config/vlc worked for me, but I had to keep removing that file often because the issue would reappear.

The permanent solution for me was to get rid of the snap version via sudo snap remove vlc, and then install an apt version via sudo apt-get install vlc. At the time of writing, the new version I got from apt was 3.0.9.2 Vetinari.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Thanks to this conversation I found a fix, but I will add some details to make things easier for you.

Follow these steps to fix the issue:

  1. Open up the Files and go to the following directory.
/home/<user-name>/snap/vlc/current/.config/vlc
  1. You will find a .conf file called vlc-qt-interface.conf.
  2. Delete that file.
  3. Then open up VLC again and try to play a video file. Hopefully you will fix the issue.

Note that you can use the terminal and delete this .conf file too.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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