Comment 75 for bug 668671

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In , Kevin-kofler (kevin-kofler) wrote :

> As an alternative, VLC provides an undocumented --no-xlib option. It
> blacklists all VLC plugins that call XInitThreads() because they are
> known to depend on Xlib.

Well, if the PulseAudio backend is one of those plugins, then that's clearly not an acceptable solution. The call to XInitThreads in VLC's PulseAudio plugin needs to be removed (it's not necessary with current PulseAudio) and --no-xlib must not blacklist the PulseAudio plugin.