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hello folks,

vlc media player works great on my ios devices in general. but when i'm streaming from my twonky media server i can choose every file i want, vlc streams always the same video file in a directory.
so i dropped different single files in a separate directory. et voilà: vlc streamed that file in a perfect manner. but if there are more than two files in a directory, vlc streamed only one file again whatever i choosed before.

all my other devices (samsung and sony tv) and other iOS Apps are streaming the right file (with much less quality of course )

any ideas? thanks!

my specs:
- twonky server 7.0.9
- iphone 5, iOS 7.0.4
- VLC 2.2.0
- mkv-containerfiles only with h.264 and h.263 content

Thanks for the detailed report! I'll try to reproduce this and provide a fix in the next update

I can confirm that I have exactly the same issue in XBMC. I'm running OpenElec 3.2.2 and the latest VLC on an iPad Air.

It always seems to pick the last file in a library.

Yep, and I think I know why…

Ok, I can't reproduce this issue with XMBC 12.3 “Frodo”. It's also working fine for me with Twonky Server 6.0.39. I'll try to update it to 7.0.9 now.

Update: I was able to reproduce this problem with the latest version of Twonky and I'm working on a fix.

Update 2: issue found, isolated and resolved.

Thanks a lot for your reports!

Thanks!

Hi, Felix. I am so glad you've identified and fixed this issue. I am having exactly the same problem except I use the latest version of Serviio as my upnp server on Windows xp. Do you know whether your fix will work for me also? If not I am willing to switch to Twonky as long as it will run "silently" in the system tray - I will look in to this. Most importantly, any idea when the update containing this fix will be made available?
Truly great app in every other respect, many thanks.

I specifically tested this fix with Serviio on Windows 8.1, so it should also work the same server on Windows XP.

The update is still waiting for review by Apple since a week. No idea what's taking them so long.

Excellent news. Thanks again.