Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

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Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

Postby giga66 » 03 May 2023 17:56

I have lots of >30Mb MP3 audio files (most likely VBR) that no longer play properly after upgrade to 3.4.0. When playing, all you get is white noise and clipping 2-3 times/second. They play properly in native iOS player and played relatively well in the previous version. Some other of my MP3 files play fine - so it’s either the length of these files, or the specific way these MP3s were encoded. I don’t know how they were encoded. Any ideas?

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Re: Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

Postby fkuehne » 04 May 2023 08:21

Can you share one of those files with me? My email is my nickname at videolan dot org - thank you!
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Re: Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

Postby giga66 » 05 May 2023 04:19

Felix - your mail server doesn’t allow for files > 10 Mb. I’ll try to find smaller files with the same issue and re-send.

This is a system-generated message to inform you that your email could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. Details of the email and the error are as follows:

<xxx@xxx.xxx>: message size 27771330 exceeds size limit 10240000 of
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Re: Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

Postby fkuehne » 05 May 2023 07:18

No no, take the large one and upload here: https://streams.videolan.org/upload/

Just email me the name afterwards (or PM on the forum) so I can find it.

THanks!
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Re: Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

Postby giga66 » 05 May 2023 18:51

Sent you an email and uploaded the files. Thank you.

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Re: Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

Postby fkuehne » 10 May 2023 10:35

Thanks a lot. Found your files and reproduced the problem!
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Re: Certain MP3 files don’t play in VLC for iOS 3.4.0

Postby giga66 » 11 May 2023 04:02

Thanks! If you figure anything out, I’d be interested why these particular files play like that.


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