VLC crashes after 5 seconds on KDE Plasma wayland and X11. Gnome is unaffected.

[lavadrop]

I just switched from using Gnome to KDE Plasma. I cannot use VLC Flatpak anymore. Packman packages run fine (OpenSUSE). Tried debugging instructions from flatpak site and that lead to me installing the runtime Sdk which allowed me to open a shell inside the sandbox which then caused konsole to freeze and then take down the whole Wayland session with it.

[rwperrott]

I'm on Linux Mint 22, and had it fail for sudo apt vlc, but it did not fail for sudo apt vlc-plug-qt!
I discovered that for sudo apt vlc, that when I ran vlc --help, it dumped the help lines, without crashing, hmm.
What finally fixed it for me was:

vlc --reset-config