Thanks buddy, got it taken care of. Had to update. The PPA had changed.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-*


On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

> What window manager are you using? Anything that composites wreaks havoc
> on a vnc server, ubuntu/unity make vnc useless, kde sort of works, but ymmv
> when you're doing things like video that might render off the gpu and
> compositing.
>
> Try disabling the compositing as a test if so, usually some hot key to do
> so, and/or set your video players to NOT use gpu.  Or use something like
> Mate that doesn't composite by default.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 03/23/2016 04:27 PM, Michael wrote:
>
>> No sound or video for webm videos. The progress bar moves, however.
>> No sound for mkv files. Video is fine.
>>
>>
>>
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