I'm watching The Americans in AVI format from SMB.
My FireTV playback is fine, don't know which VLC version.
My Android phone playback is fine. VLC 3.2.12
My Android TV runs 3.3.2, started playing the file OK but went black after a few frames, moving forward or backward did not help. Audio is Ok.
I don't know if I can send a sample of the file cause it's big and obviously reencoding is not an option because it may fix the issue.
Log data here: https://pastebin.com/DPZR5Dux
I have enabled logging, clearead, started video,
Video was black, with audio.
Clicked "down" and the menu showed (play button) went to select the subs and the OSD menu popped up.
At this point I could see the video of the file too.
Selected subtitles
Closed the OSD and the video went black again but the subtitles were visible.