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I dug a bit deeper. I think this has to do with lack of hardware acceleration support (?) for this specific variation (?) of the codec (?) when played using a simulator (?) (?) . Or something like that. I got ahold of an Apple TV and it seems to work on device.

Thanks for the help!

Found something interesting. When I download the non-working MKV and load the asset locally into VLCMediaPlayer I hear the audio but see no video. Doing the same thing with a remote working MKV I get audio and video as expected. Now I get interesting output. 2023-08-23 21:40:27.104233+0200 Debris[66...

Here's an example of output using a working video where it's a link to an MKV file. I print state changes in the media player. 2023-08-23 10:27:51.595027+0200 Debris[8261:51453047] creating player instance using shared library VLCMediaPlayerStateBuffering VLCMediaPlayerStateESAdded VLCMediaPlayerSta...

enable verbose debug libvlc logs and paste them here is a good first step. I can't find a place to do that in the tvOS side of things. Do I need to build edit the compileAndBuildVLCKit.sh script and build it myself? I get errors running that script (ERROR: Building contribs failed) that I can surel...

Hello, I'm playing around with TVVLCKit on tvOS and I have this odd issue where a certain source will get instantly stopped (VLCMediaPlayerStateStopped). I've tried different URLs and most of them work but this one won't. The URL is only valid for a very short time so I'm unable to share it unfortun...