Battery drain

[Madgibbon]

Has anyone else noticed excessive battery drain on the latest VLC for iPadOS? I’m seeing about 1% per minute. However watching the same video via nPlayer I’m only seeing 1% drop every 10 minutes.

I’m sure VLC used to be similar to nPlayer

[bubu?]

Hello,

Could you describe the type of the video ?

Additionally, if you could share the logs from the video playback it would help us greatly !

You can enable it at the end of the settings and find the log file in the Files app.

[Madgibbon]

Hello,

Could you describe the type of the video ?

Additionally, if you could share the logs from the video playback it would help us greatly !

You can enable it at the end of the settings and find the log file in the Files app.

Thanks for the reply

Here’s an image showing the video info https://i.postimg.cc/2SN6dxnP/C3-B175-F ... D2-AF3.jpg

And the following is the log file created while a video was playing.

https://file.io/eAtGsQeNF7Bv

[bubu?]

Could you confirm the device model and iOS version please ?

[Madgibbon]

Could you confirm the device model and iOS version please ?

It’s a 6th gen iPad Mini running iPadOS 15.4.1

Thanks

[Freedomcamp]

i got battery drain aw well 25% for 1 hour playback on iphone 13 version: 3.3.7 (432)

[unidan]

Can you provide the logs during playback? You can export them to the application document folder using the following settings:

[Meister77]

On my iPad it eats a lot of battery too.
iPad Air 4. Gen
ios: 16.1

To help you, we need messages, to completely understand what your problems is.

From windows command line or linux or macos terminal, launch vlc with options -vv and --logfile=file

• Windows example: vlc.exe -vv --logfile=c:\vlclog.txt
• Linux example: vlc -vv --logfile=vlclog.txt, or vlc -vv 2>&1 > logfile.txt

Then paste the full resulting log here between [​code]and[​/code] (or use Pastebin.com if it's too long)

Also don't forget to name your Operating System and provide the VLC media player version.

[DBG] VLC media player - 3.0.17.3 Vetinari
[DBG] Copyright © 1996-2022 the VideoLAN team
[DBG] revision 3.0.17.3-226-gf9d0887030
[DBG] configured with /Users/videolanci/builds/iHxegY-y/0/videolan/VLCKit/libvlc/vlc/configure '--prefix=/Users/videolanci/builds/iHxegY-y/0/videolan/VLCKit/libvlc/vlc/install-iPhoneOS/arm64' '--host=aarch64-apple-darwin' '--with-contrib=/Users/videolanci/builds/iHxegY-y/0/videolan/VLCKit/libvlc/vlc/contrib/iPhoneOS-aarch64-apple-darwin-aarch64' '--enable-static' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-avcodec' '--disable-macosx' '--disable-macosx-qtkit' '--disable-macosx-avfoundation' '--disable-shared' '--enable-opus' '--disable-faad' '--disable-lua' '--disable-a52' '--enable-fribidi' '--disable-qt' '--disable-skins2' '--disable-vcd' '--disable-vlc' '--disable-vlm' '--disable-nls' '--disable-sse' '--disable-notify' '--enable-live555' '--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-swscale' '--disable-projectm' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libxml2' '--disable-goom' '--disable-dvdread' '--disable-dvdnav' '--disable-bluray' '--disable-linsys' '--disable-libva' '--disable-gme' '--disable-tremor' '--enable-vorbis' '--disable-fluidsynth' '--disable-jack' '--disable-pulse' '--disable-mtp' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-speex' '--enable-theora' '--enable-flac' '--disable-screen' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-smb2' '--disable-mmx' '--disable-sparkle' '--disable-addonmanagermodules' '--disable-mad' 'host_alias=aarch64-apple-darwin' 'CC=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang' 'CFLAGS=-isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS15.4.sdk -mios-version-min=8.4 -arch arm64 -g -DNDEBUG' 'LDFLAGS=-arch arm64 -Wl,-ios_version_min,8.4' 'CPPFLAGS=-isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS15.4.sdk -mios-version-min=8.4 -arch arm64 -g' 'CXX=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang++' 'CXXFLAGS=-isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS15.4.sdk -mios-version-min=8.4 -arch arm64 -g' 'OBJC=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang' 'OBJCFLAGS=-isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS15.4.sdk -mios-version-min=8.4 -arch arm64 -g' 'CCAS=gas-preprocessor.pl /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH='
[DBG] restart requested (1)
[DBG] Creating an input for 'S01E04.mkv'
[DBG] reusing audio output
[DBG] keeping audio output
[DBG] using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB
[DBG] using default timeshift path
[DBG] `http://192.168.0.101:8000/S01E04.mkv' gives access `http' demux `any' path `192.168.0.101:8000/S01E04.mkv'
[DBG] creating demux: access='http' demux='any' location='192.168.0.101:8000/S01E04.mkv' file='(null)'
[DBG] looking for access_demux module matching "http": 12 candidates
[DBG] no access_demux modules matched
[DBG] creating access: http://192.168.0.101:8000/S01E04.mkv
[DBG] looking for access module matching "http": 66 candidates
[DBG] looking for keystore module matching "any": 6 candidates
[DBG] no keystore modules matched
[DBG] resolving 192.168.0.101 ...
[DBG] outgoing request:
GET /S01E04.mkv HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.101:8000
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en_US
User-Agent: VLC/3.0.17.3 LibVLC/3.0.17.3
Range: bytes=0-


[/logfile]

[Meister77]

The remaining log:
https://pastebin.com/tJiEYivv