Interesting to hear about this. Some others in this forum including myself, have recompiled the VLC source code witn HW acceleration option for the RPi 2 B device, and with the new built we did not got any video output, only blank screen. 
Audio quality output was excellent, though.
Within the VLC application settings, for audio output I have selected the "bcm2835 ALSA Default Device" option and for video the “OpenMAX IL Video Output” option.