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I am on version 2.2.1 but I have also observed this on the latest version of android as well as when building libvlc for android. When attempting to load an rtmp link, the video shows a black screen for 10 seconds and only then, begins playing. The 10 seconds is caused by vlc filling up the buffer, ...

The suggestion worked perfectly! libvlc.setVideoTrack(-1) libvlc.setVideoTrack(0) I do have one suggestion, however, unless I am missing something. There is no getter such as libvlc.getVideoTrack(int track), or libvlc.getVideoTracks(int[] tracks). On some videos that I have to play, the video track ...

Ahh, okay. Thank you! I'm assuming this will work like the new background playback I see in the recent commits and the ability to call setVideoTrack(). I'll update once I try this in case anyone else was curious.

Hi, I have been using libvlc 0.9.9 in an Android app for a while now. It has been working well, except for 4.4 devices and below hanging in some scenarios when calling vlc.stop(). It looks like the issue relates to the link here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.vlc.devel/96116 I ...

Thank you!

--disable-plugins means nothing and does not exist in configure. You should disable the rest of the configure part and you should make the ffmpeg compilation only compile H264.

What file do I need to modify to set ffmpeg to only compile certain file types? Thank you!

I was able to stop this same crash by removing these two lines from the releasePlayer() method.

libvlc.destroy();
libvlc = null;