Download video broken in iOS app v2.3.0

[BrianEcker]

Since the 2.3.0 release, download video has been broken. Whenever I try to download a video from my web server the app just crashes. Videos play fine from the server (using the "Open Network Stream" function), but when I enter a URL and click the "Download" button in the "Download" section, the app pauses briefly and then crashes. I've submitted several crash reports.

Download worked fine in the previous versions. Will there be an upcoming release soon that fixes it?

[fkuehne]

Are you using any special characters in your URLs? Is it a password-protected download?

[BrianEcker]

Are you using any special characters in your URLs? Is it a password-protected download?

URLs are all ASCII text, following a scheme like this:

http://site.org/path/to/video.mp4

I've tried both with and without HTTP auth. The previous version of iOS VLC had no problem with the http auth URLs in the format:

http://user:password@site.org/path/to/video.mp4

I thought HTTP auth might have been broken in the 2.3.0 release, so I removed the http authfrom my server and removed the credentials from the URLs but iOS VLC still crashes a few seconds after I touch the (Download) button.

I just sent another crash report (2014-06-05T00:16:22Z).

[fkuehne]

Ok, this is weird indeed. I assume that VLC crashes before the download finishes?

[BrianEcker]

Ok, this is weird indeed. I assume that VLC crashes before the download finishes?

Yeah, it doesn't even start downloading. The display does not change and about 2 seconds after I tap the "Download" button it crashes to Springboard. I suppose it could be possible that the storage format changed between versions, so when attempting to write to the "filesystem" it creashes when attempting access it? I haven't tried deleting the app (and the underlying data) because I'm afraid that isn't the problem, so I will have deleted all my saved videos and not be able to download any new ones.

I just sent another crash report dated 2014-06-20T16:50:13Z.