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I have VLC on my iPad, my iPhone, and 7 AppleTVs in two locations seperated by 230km. Since the upgrade to v3.5.3, VLC has frozen and and application kill and restart on all of these devices if I start it on a network with a running SMB server. In the past I'm certain that I was able to use some of these SMB servers because I had usernames and passwords cached to be able to access them. I was able to update the app to 3.5.4 on the AppleTVs but that didn't appear to fix the problem. VLC will hard freeze on my phone if I try to use the "open network stream" panel when connected to my wifi. It works okay if I don't connect my phone to wifi although I haven't tried to watch any video. The iPad behaves the same.

I read a post in a different thread that suggested that the problem was that I have cached credentials to log into an smb server in VLC and that erasing those credentials is the way to make VLC work again. The problem is that when I visit the "Manage Storage" settings in iOS, I can only delete the local copy. In other words, If I delete the VLC data from an Apple TV, then re-download the App, the app retrieves the possibly corrupted data from iCloud and using VLC will cause it to freeze. Finally, I thought that the problem might be SMB servers but I have turned off the SMB servers here and the problem persists?

Can anyone help with this?

Okay, I reread the release notes and I have isolated the problem. VLC freezes when I start it on my network with any part of my MythTV 0.29 services running. Myth is offering both uPnP services and SMB services. VLC seems to be fine with at least the SMB server from my TimeCapsule as well as the one in FreeNAS. When I shutdown mythtvbackend, smb, and nmb on the local mythtv server, VLC 3.5.4 works perfectly. It also appears to work in my second home with my MythTV 0.31.

Post edited about 1000 times as I gathered the data here.

I plan to upgrade this mythtv server to something at least as new as the one in my second home shortly since 0.29 is pretty old. I'll post more when I find it.