VLC 2.2.0 Crashing too often on iOS 6 !!!

[cinemais]

Hi,

The 2.2.0 upgrade doesn't play too well with iOS 6, on an iPad 4th generation.

To begin with, rebuilding the thumbnails images of the video collection proved painful: it kept crashing very frequently. I forwarded all the crash reports.

Trying to switch between media categories, from "all" to "tv" / "music" is a sure crash. More often than not, trying to play a video generates another crash... though by and large I am able to play the videos.

I have VLC loaded with something like 200 videos, a mix of 1280 x 720 mp4, 848 x 480 avi and 320 x240 quicktime videos. The generated thumbnails, in particular those from 848 x 480 avis, are of lesser quality than those generated in the previous version.

In addition, not all thumbnails were successfully built... quite a few videos are missing thumbnails... a few don't show the usual duration and dimension labeling.

So things appear fragile under iOS 6... in comparison with the previous version!!!

With iOS 7 on an iPad Air, things appear more stable, ie., no crashes. And all the video thumbnails built all right. But the quality of the generated thumbnails is crappy compared to what the previous version managed.

I am not partial to the new media library layout, bleeding thumbnail images into each other simply doesn't look good. I much prefer the previous version!

If this new version 2.2.0 of VLC for iOS wasn't intended for iOS 6, I wish it would have been designated as only for iOS 7. As it is, I am stucked with this new version that is not very reliable and one can't downgrade! So hopefully, adjustments can be made to play nicer with iOS 6!

[fkuehne]

We re-worked the thumbnailing mechanism quite a bit, but more improvements will come. In fact, it is covered a lot of edge-cases now where no snapshot was created at all in the past. For your black ones, those are probably the files which lead to the crash, so they are subsequently ignored to prevent a crash loop.

The crash on switch between categories is a weird one, especially since you can't reproduce it on iOS 7, as it is exactly the same code and far from being iOS 7 specific in any way. I'm currently processing the received crash logs. We will push stability updates very soon.

Are you using some special files names? like "Show name S00E00 episode name" or is it more generic like "I know what you did last summer" or "Bob at the pool last weekend"?

[KevinD]

Hey,

I have an Ipad Air and VLC crashes very often since the update to 2.2.0

Also i'm unable to open 'folders' without a crash

Since i watch mostly series on VLC i like the folder function a lot, but it still need some work because all my files are named like 'show S01E01' but some files don't get in the folders

I send the crash logs aswel

Grtz Kevin

[cinemais]

Are you using some special files names? like "Show name S00E00 episode name" or is it more generic like "I know what you did last summer" or "Bob at the pool last weekend"?

My file names are all as simple as they can get, a single word typically, a few cases with 2 or 3 words... nothing more complicated!

Regarding the degraded quality of the video thumbnails, it is one case in particular that stands out: AVI videos encoded at 848x480. The thumbnails for mp4 videos at 1280 x 720 and another bunch of quicktime videos encoded at 320 x 240 do look fine!

Thanks for your reply and continued work on VLC for iOS!!!

[sco]

I have the same sort of problems with new VLC on iOS 6. The program crashes when trying to build thumbmails, play files and access video over a nework (both UPnP and FTP).

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Some crashes have been fixed with the latest updates 2.2.1 and 2.2.2