I did a fresh install of 14.04.1 in December, and have this issue as well. I did not have any issue with Xubuntu 14.10.
I am still having other sound-related issues though; Ubuntu randomly jumps from HDMI to Analog to No sound at each reboot, but I assumed the VLC error was just an offshoot of that.
But, it sounds like this is a different bug altogether.
I did a fresh install of 14.04.1 in December, and have this issue as well. I did not have any issue with Xubuntu 14.10.
I am still having other sound-related issues though; Ubuntu randomly jumps from HDMI to Analog to No sound at each reboot, but I assumed the VLC error was just an offshoot of that.
But, it sounds like this is a different bug altogether.
Just wanted to post this as another data point.