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I'm running VLC 2.7.1 on iOS9.2 on my iPhone 6plus. My Macbook pro has FTP server setup. In the past (iOS9.2 and VLC2.6.x), I could login to my Macbook using FTP and Local Network, see files and directories, and download supported Movie files to my iPhone.

Now, with the version 2.7.0 (and 2.7.1 updated) VLC, when I touch the down arrow in VLC to download the file, I get an ERROR 550. "No Such File or Directory On Server". The file IS on the server in the proper location. The file is a supported video format. When I use my wife's iPhone VLC v2.6.x to do the same thing, it works!

Could someone please try this if you are running VLC version 2.7.x on iOS9.2?

Thanks in advance,
Carcass

Thanks for the report. We'll look into it!

I am as well having issues with FTP. When clicking on a file it reports error "your input cannot be opened" only started occurIng since the addition of SMB.

In 2.7.2 the downbload-button even disappeared

Having the same issue with ftp connections failing. When I try to network stream a file directly using ftp [ftp://my.computer/movies/file.mov] it works fine. When I use the local network I can connect fine and even navigate through the directories but when I try to play any of the files I get an error message stating "Your input can't be opened'' and showing a file path of "user@ftp://my.computer%2Fmovies/file.mov". It looks like the slash is being stripped out and replaced with "%2F".

vlc 2.7.2
ios 9.2
iphone 6

Hello Admins,

Any planned resolution for this yet? Thank you,
Carcass

Hello,

We fixed the download button here now, but we need to do some more tests before a bug fix release.

Best regards,

Felix

I can't download because the download arrow is missing. I feel that VLC player is still the best. Please help to fix this missing arrow issue. I can't save my fav videos into my phone for long distance travel...

The FTP bugs continue, I'm using 2.7.8. (278.1).

I can browse FTP folders just fine, but when I click the download arrow for a file then I get a 550 error that the file cannot be found. I upped the logging on my FTP server and saw the problem: apparently when downloading a file (but not when navigating or listing folders) VLC is adding the home path twice: I see the transfer request logged as, for example: /home/someuser/home/someuser/Music/01.mp3.

Note how the home path is repeated. It seems to be a VLC problem: other apps can download from the same FTP service just fine.

(My workaround was that I created a /home/someuser/home/someuser symlink to /home/someuser and now downloads work, but that's pretty ugly as now the file system has a circular reference, and of course many users of FTP probably can't do this.)