Sudden video playback issue on 24.04.2 LTS

Suddenly overnight I am having issues with video playback.

First I noticed it in Discord, where video wouldn't play in the app, then vlc would crash trying to play a video. I was able to fix vlc by changing the output to x11, but what do I do for Discord and the rest of the system and what could have happened to make this happen?

Do you have sotware updates done automatically in the background?

If so, when/what was your last video-related software update?

If you revert that to the earlier version, does it fix the issue?

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Honestly I don't remember if there was any kind of update that may have messed things up for me or not. And since after a bit of a failed hardware upgrade I do not currently have access to the lenovo right now I'm going to put a pin in this.

(Tried to do a keyboard replacement and it booted once then didn't boot again. Hoping to comb through it to find something that get pulled loose or something of that nature and be back using the lenovo again. Currently using a Dell Precision M4800 loaner.)