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Using VLC 3.0.16 on xubuntu 22.04 to cast video to chromecast, does not work with all files. It works with some (AVI) files, but with some other (AVI) file just connects normally, but video is black and playback seems stopped.

I found some old question about a very similar problem, but it seems that those problems where solved by update but here I'm on an updated machine.

UPDATE: If I remove audio, then the video is casted, if I put on the audio again then the black screen comes back.

user126154
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Problem solved! Upgrade to VLC 3.0.18.

  1. Purge all installation files of VLC by opening a terminal and running these commands:

    sudo apt-get purge vlc
sudo apt-get autoremove

  2. Update the repositories:

    sudo apt-get update

  3. Open the software app and make sure that VLC is not installed.

  4. If you have not already installed all codecs run the following:

    sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

  5. Now, I am not a fan of using snap but it seems to work (for this). Open the Software app and search for VLC.

  6. Click on VLC to pull up the app's information. Be sure the source is set to Ubuntu (snap) in the top right (not Ubuntu (deb)).

  7. Scroll down to make sure that the version is 3.0.18. Then simply click Install and start streaming.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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Jshel
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Faced the same issue.

VLC 3.0.18 installed from Snap is missing this package:

sudo apt install libaribb24-0
Vladimir Tarasov
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