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Notices that iTunes was "not responding", force quit that then VLC began playing videos again.

Same problem here, nothing plays anymore, just beach balls and have to kill the app. Getting fed up with all these bugs.
latest v2.2.8

Also open a non-working network link and also get an infinite loop, 100% cpu and VLC needs to be killed, e.g.

rtsp://10.0.1.106:554/onvif1

Still hoping for a fix for this. Tried Influx and it wants payment after adding a share and Plex either picks wrong audio language or is doing unwanted transcoding. I don't understand why do SMB shares work fine on iPhone but show "empty folder" on ATV.