You can run this in terminal for fix this, and run again if vlc update.

sed -i s/geteuid/getppid/g /usr/bin/vlc

"sed -i s/geteuid/getppid/g /usr/bin/vlc" hasn't fixed it for me. Exact same issue.

Hi! You have two options here, but first:

Make sure you kali is totally up-to-date.
Remove the VLC: apt purge vlc
Update your Kali: apt update && apt full-upgrade && apt autoremove
Install VLC again.

Now:
1 Option: Create a regular user and run vlc or vlc-wrapper whit this user.

2 Option, run as root. By default vlc does not support run as root. But you can have a workaround

You can use any hexedit, I suggest you bless, it is in Kali repo already.
apt-get install bless

Open VLC binary using bless
bless /usr/bin/vlc
Search for the string "geteuid" and change by "getppid" ( without quotes)
Save it, and run.

In the current Kali version it is working fine:
Linux Anubis 4.19.0-kali5-amd64 0000001 SMP Debian 4.19.37-6kali1 (2019-07-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@Anubis:/# vlc
VLC media player 3.0.7.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.7.1-0-gf3940db4af)
[000055d3d954b750] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[000055d3d95463a0] main playlist: playlist is empty

See attachment

I am using Kali as a regular user, so from the above I am assuming I don't need to make the binary edit. Removed vlc with "sudo apt purge vlc" and updated the system, auto-removed and reinstalled vlc.

kali$ uname -a
Linux kali 4.19.0-kali5-amd64 0000001 SMP Debian 4.19.37-6kali1 (2019-07-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux
kali$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.7.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.7.1-0-gf3940db4af)
[0000562fdf092750] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Segmentation fault
kali$

I'm sorry but vlc is not a key package of Kali. And it looks like that your problem is not affecting everybody.

So we will not invest any resource in diagnosing this bug. If you want to make progress on this issue, you should at least provide a backtrace of the segfault and file this either to the upstream developers or to Debian (unless the problem is really specific to Kali, but from the information currently provided I don't see why it would be). Feel free to re-open, if you have a more detailed report (with backtrace) and if you have tested that the issue is specific to the Kali package.

I'm running Debian Stretch (latest updates) and Buster (latest updates) and vlc works fine on those platforms. But I understand vlc is not a focus for a dedicated purpose distro.

Well... as I live and breathe... Looks like whatever was causing vlc to crash and burn must have been causing issues with other packages, because the latest wave of updates has fixed vlc as well.

kali$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.7.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.7.1-0-gf3940db4af)
[00005613169a3750] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[000056131699e3a0] main playlist: playlist is empty
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
kali$ uname -a
Linux kali 4.19.0-kali5-amd64 0000001 SMP Debian 4.19.37-6kali1 (2019-07-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux
kali$

Works for me now, please close the bug.

Thanks, closing.