For anyone else with this issue, I was able to work around it by switching from the VLC to the GStreamer backend for Phonon:
sudo apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer phonon4qt5settings
Then running:
/usr/bin/phononsettings
Finally go to the "Backend" tab, select "Phonon GStreamer" and the up arrow to move it to the top. Then OK to exit the application.
For anyone else with this issue, I was able to work around it by switching from the VLC to the GStreamer backend for Phonon:
sudo apt-get install phonon4qt5- backend- gstreamer phonon4qt5settings
Then running:
/usr/ bin/phononsetti ngs
Finally go to the "Backend" tab, select "Phonon GStreamer" and the up arrow to move it to the top. Then OK to exit the application.