look, i'm not even 100% mad about it being an optional plugin - there are good reasons for a media player to have a plugin-based architecture, and not everyone uses vlc to view their camera/capture device output

i'm mad that the plugin that adds support is hidden in such a horrendous way; almost no other media players/camera viewers require zvbi as a dependency, and the actual package in this case does not indicate that it is required for webcam and v4l2 capture device support

if the same package were named something like vlc-plugin-v4l2, i would not be complaining, because a lot of the time if you're dealing with video/webcam stuff on linux you're somewhat more likely to know what v4l2 is (at least, if you're more of a technical/power user)

i'd consider myself a very technical user! it took me a bit to figure out what plugin was needed for camera support!

the chance that a regular user would be able to figure this out is next to none!!!!!!