Can not find directoty

[Cabrio4ever]

I am convinced it must have somthing to do with this new requirement in 4.4....

http://developer.android.com/about/vers ... d-4.4.html
Quote :
"
Important Behavior Changes
If you have previously published an app for Android, be aware that your app might be affected by changes in Android 4.4.

If your app reads from external storage...

Your app can not read shared files on the external storage when running on Android 4.4, unless your app has the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. That is, files within the directory returned by getExternalStoragePublicDirectory() are no longer accessible without the permission. However, if you need to access only your app-specific directories, provided by getExternalFilesDir(), then you do not need the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.
"

[edwardw]

This is because we already ask for WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, which includes READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE.

The test build I made that includes READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE made no difference whatsoever.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Weird bug, but several people complained...

[edwardw]

Earlier I even posted a build with READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and it still didn't work, so...

Would be very nice if we had physical access to such a device so that we can figure out what's going on.

[wired2mw]

I have the exact same problem, but posted under another title. Below is a description of the problem.
I'm having a similar problem as peter66 - VLC is not able to see any files on the ext SD card. I can use the file mgr to access the files and then play them using VLC. VLC will see the upper level folders, but not any video or audio files in them. When I select the video option all it sees are the files on the internal card.
I using a new Samsung Note 3 (cpu N9005) with Android ver. 4.4.2. VlC downloaded from google play store has been working for the past few months. It seems to have stopped working a few weeks ago, possibly after an OS update - I'm not sure as I haven't used VLC for a few weeks. Tried deleting and reinstalling VLC, no luck. Installed a nightly from google play store, no luck there either.
I'm not sure which nightly to try downloading from the videolan.org site. Appreciate any help with this.

[edwardw]

If you post in one thread, it would be nice to keep the conversation going in the same thread so that we don't have to repeat each other multiple times.

[Cabrio4ever]

Too bad there is still no solution.
Indeed you can use the standard Android file explorer to go to the sd card and select vlc as the app to open the file. ... But there is no way to browse to the file within Vlc and that is what we really want to do. ..

[wallepuh]

This is not working for me either.

Everything worked well untill the upgrade to kitkat.

On my device I´m also running MX player and that pice of sw works fine. I can browse all directories but VLC can´t.

If i browse the SD card with the filmanager I can start the video and choose VLC as the player and it works fine. The file stays for a while in the history buffer. But after a while the history buffer/list is cleared.


Hope that gave you some more clarification.

I´m using Samsung S4

regards Mats

[XilasZ]

I just changed the way we scan for sdcards, can you try the latest NB : http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/and ... 7-1057.apk