In
Achieve Zen with openSUSE 11 it's already said that "VLC required root to have audio, wtf?".
I would say if someone with PulseAudio (and ALSA redirecting to it) wants to get sound from VLC he should one of these:
- Add himself to the audio group? Some people have reported to work.
- Remove alsa-plugins-pulse package.
- Use VLC with EsounD?
- Ask Packman to package
vlc-plugin-pulse