Yes. The wise stay away from VLC entirely that one file is all you want from there. Mplayer/Smplayer, Kaffine and gstreamer are better choices. VLC can’t live well with those other better choices without mucking things up badly.
When it is an X, it will be removed. When you set it at Update (little green arrow) it will be replved by the available version. Use right click on the little box to choose.