"Unidentified codec" after upgrading to VLC 3.0.2-1+b1

[uigqwfqq]

So, I wanted the infamous play/pause on middle button functionality ...
Before installing the plugin, however, I updated.
Now I get "Unidentified codec: VLC could not identify the audio or video codec".
I don't see how updating should in any way lead to this error.
I already deleted the plugin with:

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sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/video_filter/libpause_click_plugin.so

My system is:

uname -a
Linux user-pc 4.5.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.5.1-1 (2016-04-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux

For reasons regarding the damn NVIDIA driver I can't upgrade the linux kernel, but I'm using software from the Debian sid repositories anyway and with success.

These packages were upgraded:

sudo apt-get install -t sid vlc

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libiso9660-10 liblivemedia61 libtgvoip1.0 libvcdinfo0 libx265-130 prosper ttf-adf-accanthis ttf-adf-gillius
ttf-adf-universalis vlc-l10n
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libaribb24-0 libavcodec57 libavformat57 libavutil-dev libavutil55 libbasicusageenvironment1 libbrotli1 libgroupsock8
liblivemedia62 libmicrodns0 libncursesw6 libnfs11 libpcre2-16-0 libpcre2-32-0 libpcre2-8-0 libpcre2-dev
libpcre2-posix0 libplacebo4 libpostproc54 libprotobuf-lite10 libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5
libqt5designer5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5positioning5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5qml5
libqt5quick5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5script5 libqt5sensors5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5 libqt5test5
libqt5webchannel5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libswresample-dev libswresample2 libswscale4
libtgvoip1.0.3 libtinfo6 libusageenvironment3 libva-drm2 libva-wayland2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvlc-bin libvpx5
libwebpmux3 libwoff1 libx265-151 python3-pyqt5 python3-sip qt5-assistant qt5-qmake qt5-qmake-bin qtbase5-dev
qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev-tools vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-qt
vlc-plugin-video-output
Suggested packages:
qtwayland5 qt5-qmltooling-plugins python3-pyqt5-dbg qt5-doc default-libmysqlclient-dev firebird-dev libpq-dev
unixodbc-dev libdvdcss2
Recommended packages:
qt5-gtk-platformtheme geoclue-2.0 libqt5opengl5-dev fonts-open-sans vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba
vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libaribb24-0 libbrotli1 liblivemedia62 libmicrodns0 libncursesw6 libnfs11 libplacebo4 libprotobuf-lite10 libqt5svg5
libtgvoip1.0.3 libtinfo6 libva-wayland2 libvpx5 libwoff1 libx265-151
The following packages will be upgraded:
libavcodec57 libavformat57 libavutil-dev libavutil55 libbasicusageenvironment1 libgroupsock8 libpcre2-16-0
libpcre2-32-0 libpcre2-8-0 libpcre2-dev libpcre2-posix0 libpostproc54 libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5
libqt5designer5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5positioning5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5qml5
libqt5quick5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5script5 libqt5sensors5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5test5
libqt5webchannel5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libswresample-dev libswresample2 libswscale4
libusageenvironment3 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvlc-bin libwebpmux3 python3-pyqt5 python3-sip qt5-assistant
qt5-qmake qt5-qmake-bin qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev-tools vlc vlc-bin vlc-data
vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-video-output
57 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2656 not upgraded.
Need to get 68.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 5,711 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Picking out vlc for the unpacking information:

Unpacking vlc (3.0.2-1+b1) over (2.2.8-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../66-vlc-plugin-base_3.0.2-1+b1_amd64.deb ...

The video is a simple x264 codec:

mediainfo 'video.mkv'

Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Bit rate : 8 000 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.161
Writing library : x264 core 142 r2479 dd79a61
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec

The sound plays just fine, only the video is missing.

P.S.: The forum software seems bugged ... line breaks inside code statements are deleted! That's why it is in quotes. I'm beginning to loose my cool. Just wanted to watch a nice movie and in trying to solve one usability bug, I stumbled upon four others

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[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Make sure the MKV plugin is installed and working. If so, then the file simply is not supported (and probably never was).

[uigqwfqq]

The file worked in 2.2! I updated in the middle of watching the movie, so I can say that for sure! (Also the file works fine with smplayer)

dpkg -l '*vlc-plugin*'
ii vlc-plugin-base:amd64 3.0.2-1+b1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (base plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-notify:amd64 3.0.2-1+b1 amd64 LibNotify plugin for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-qt:amd64 3.0.2-1+b1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (Qt plugin)
ii vlc-plugin-samba:amd64 3.0.2-1+b1 amd64 Samba plugin for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-video-output: 3.0.2-1+b1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (video output plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-video-splitte 3.0.2-1+b1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (video splitter plugin

Going into Tools->Plugins and Extensions->Plugins and searching for MKV or Matroska turns up no matches, even though the vlc-plugin-video-splitter package is installed, see above.
The only three plugins showing with capability "video splitter" are: Clone video filter, Panoramix: wall with overlap video filter, Wall video filter.

P.S.: The Plugin window is always behind the VLC window. No video is playing.
P.P.S.: Nothing works. I tested a wider range of files webm, mp4, ogv, mkv, all with different files and presumably different codecs. Some, like MP4, don't give an error message though, they just lead to the VLC icon blinking unevenly and nothing plays ... as if it was crashing and restarting constantly.