Yeah, about VLC. I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t play DVD videos even though I had installed the DeCSS package on my laptop. After reading this thread I went back and discovered I had installed VLC from the Software Store and ended up getting the Snap package instead of the deb package. Uninstalled VLC and reinstalled via the command line and now I can watch DVDs on my laptop.
VLC is NOT a good fit for the Snap store as legal hurdles prevent you from including the DeCSS software in the snap package, and it cannot access the DeCSS libraries from the snap container even if it is on the system. Oh, and VLC launches a LOT faster now, too.