The VideoLAN Forums

I have experienced the same problem. It's actually a bug in VLC when browsing SMB shares. I submitted a patch to fix it. The next iOS and tvOS version should not have this problem anymore.

I noticed the same problem. External subtitle files located on a network share do not seem to work. So I checked the code. The problem is easily fixable for non SMB shares (FTP, Plex, UPnP), so I submitted a patch that was accepted a few days ago. I hope it will make it into the next VLC release. Ho...

I have had the same issue with all versions I installed from the App Store. Also, it does not matter if the file is from an SMB or FTP share. After approx. 10 munites, VLC just quits and returns to the home screen. However, if I compile VLC from source myself and run it, I do not have this issue.