I noticed by using the new iOS Files app that renaming the files in VLC does no such thing, it just renames an alias of it. When downloading files from a URL where the URL changes, but the filename is the same, this is a problem as it completes the download but then dumps the file since one already ...
Update on this bug that persists. I just upgraded to iPhoneXS and it's doing the same on the new phone. It is not making actual copies of the videos, just duplicate thumbnails or aliases when the file list reaches 1000. When deleting any one of these it deletes the file and all of its aliases. In th...
So I uploaded 54 full length dvd ripped movies into the player on top of 850 other videos with the data cache resulting in about 170GB with no playlist thumbnail duplications. This leads me to believe that it's likely a file count issue.
Yes, I keep the app updated as soon as new updates are available. I updated the app and added a couple of more videos so I can't tell if the new video additions were the problem, which is my guess, or the update changed something. Note that reinstalling the app and then reloading the whole library o...
Maybe it was a filename issue for some, but this certainly isn't the case for me. I double checked every file in my library and none of them have strange characters and the duplication is happening to every file. Here is what the program is doing. Every time I open the app it generates a new thumbna...