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I have also discovered that a short name causes VLC to crash. I have gradually been increasing the library and VLC is working well. I find the name has to be more than four as taps.mp3 and Matt.mpg will crash VLC and everything has to be downloaded again. I will change the names of these two and see...

i have an ipad 4gen ios 7 and the latest vlc 2.1.1 and i get the same issue a black screen for a second then it closes down. i have tried resinstalling and still no success It puts you off updating when something that has ben working well goes wrong. VLC does not show up as having crashed so there ...

Reset your vlc by reinstalling.

Have reset four times and no change. At start I transfer two files from Dropbox but after that a black screen flashes briefly when VLC icon pressed and that is it. Any other thoughts as VLC will not work now.

magc22 What version of VLC are you using? I am not able to use VLV 2.1.1 . The home page opens then immediately closes.

Regret do not know which one is at fault both upgrades done together.

VLC no longer works with above updates. It is a total time waster and no sign of it being corrected.