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I just used VLC for TVOS again and after playing 5 songs it completely froze the Apple TV, I had to disconnect the power and re-connect to restart the ATV after that it played 10 songs without further issue.

I have only used it once since the upgrade to 3.4.9 and there were no crashes. Playing a folder with 11 songs, song number 8 was repeated once before moving onto the next song. No other issues so far.

The issues with VLC for TVOS have not been resolved for several months now. But version 3.4.8 is impossible to use any longer as it persistently crashes after playing a song - sometimes after the first song, sometimes after the second or third. It simply does not get further than that before VLC clo...

VLC was automatically updated to version 3.4.8 a few of days ago and I am finding a variety of glitches. 1. It has started to randomly repeat tracks from within a folder again. 2. After playing all 8 tracks in a folder, it automatically replayed all 8 tracks again - not the same as in 1. above. 3. O...

Sorry I have taken a while to get back to you, I have been otherwise occupied. It appears that the problem is not completely fixed. I haven't used VLC on my Apple TV often recently maybe 6-7 times. On 3 of those occasions I have experienced VLC repeating tracks randomly rather than as previously whe...

After automatic upgrade to version 3.4.4, VLC now repeats tracks I play from my NAS. After selecting a folder, I choose track 1 which it plays and then moves on to track 2 but then repeats track 2 until I manually select another track, say, track 3 which it plays and then moves on to track 4 but the...

I have 2 Apple TVs. The 4K 1st gen. model seems to work OK. I have only tested it with a 28 gig mp4 file and it works as it should. All my files are stored on a QNAP NAS so that I can play them on the Apple TVs in 2 rooms and on Macs in another 2 rooms. The older HD Apple TV (4th gen.) used to play ...

Update: My temporary solution (delete the sharing of the folder with all my media) allows VLC on my Apple TV to work. I can login to my Mac Mini and the folder (external drive) is listed on VLC/Apple TV even though not formally "shared". However, I can no longer access that same external d...

I have found what may be a temporary solution. I deleted the folder that I wanted to share with the other devices even though I read that it is supposed to be selected for sharing. Remote Management must be turned off and then I can connect from my Apple TV and iPhone. However, when the computer goe...

One other issue I just discovered. I need to have Remote Management turned off on my Mac Mini in order to connect the Apple TV and iPhone, but after logging in with either of them, Remote Management is turned back on and I cannot connect from those devices the next time until I manually switch RM of...

After further trial and error I have both the Apple TV 4K and iPhone 12 mini connecting properly to the external Drobo DAS on my Mac mini running Mojave. All I did was delete the external drive from the list of shared folders.

Since my last post with what appeared to be a fix by switching off Remote Management, I have found for the past 2 weeks that this 'solution' no longer works. Nothing I can set in my Mac Mini's system preferences for sharing works now.

I have been having the same problem on and off for a while on my Apple TV 4K using VLC ver. 3.0.12 (414). It seemed to keep changing behavior for a while, but for the last couple of weeks I have not been able to login at all, getting the 'SMB authentication required' message and the advice that I ne...

I had the same problem trying to connect VLC on my Apple TV4 to my Mac Mini, I did not have the same issue connecting VLC on the ATV to my MacBook Pro, so I thought there had to be a difference in the setups of the 2 computers. I found that on the Mac Mini under System Preferences>Sharing I had Remo...

ePirat, looks like you right about using Handbrake. But, back to VLC as this is a VLC forum, I also tried to carry out the conversion on my 2014 Mac Mini using a virtual Windows 10 machine and running a Windows version of VLC. I converted the same 35 GB movie that I had ripped from a Blu-ray disc wh...

I have searched posts for anything about this, but cannot find any posts quite like my problem. I am trying to convert MKV files to M4V without success. I tried this on various computers with the same result - an unreadable file. 1. On a 2009 iMac running Mac OS El Capitan and VLC version 2.2.2 2. O...