Bug with video playlists Android VLC

[Ibrahim Rashwan]

While playing a video in any playlist and go to home screen when going back it resets the playlist and play the first video

In Short: (Video progress not saved when app goes in background)

Android 7.0
Oppo A71
ColorOS

[Skantes]

Hi, how are you restarting the playlist exactly ?

If you are pressing the play button at the top, in the header, this is the intended behavior, it will start the playlist from the start.

If you were playing a video playlist, you can resume it from the resume button in the three dot menu, in the video section.

We don't save the progress inside a playlist, only progress on individual files, or progress for the previous list of media that was playing, sorry for the inconvenience.

[Ibrahim Rashwan]

I'm not restarting the playlist VLC does...
Senario as follows:
1 - Watching a video within a playlist (say second video in 3 video playlist).
2 - Pressed home or any other action resulting in app going in background (still running in memory).
3 - Goes back to the app after no time.

Expected behaviour:
App resumes video number 2 (the one I was playing).

Actual behaviour:
App resumes first video in the playlist.

This happens with any type of platlylist (manually created - auto)

[Skantes]

Ok, thanks for the feedback, though I wasn't able to reproduce this.

Would you mind sending us some logs by going to More -> Settings -> Advanced -> Debug logs (at the bottom), please ? It might help to see what is happening

[Ibrahim Rashwan]

What I did ...
- Go to Debug logs -> start logging -> clear logging
- Played a single video -> out -> in = works as expected
- Highlighted 2 videos and played them as a playlist
- First video -> go to middle -> out -> in -> resumed from middle correctly.
- Gone to middle of second video (same playlist) -> out -> in -> resumed the frst video instead.
- Back to Debug logs -> Copy to clipboard.

Logs:

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06-16 18:54:08.785 E/JavaBinder( 5106): !!! FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION !!! (parcel size = 2147564) 06-16 18:54:08.786 I/Choreographer( 4969): Skipped 7 frames! The application may be doing too much work on its main thread. 06-16 18:54:08.794 D/GraphicBuffer( 4969): register, handle(0x730efa9ec0) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000b00) 06-16 18:54:08.802 D/GraphicBuffer( 4969): register, handle(0x72fc0a9b80) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000b00) 06-16 18:54:08.818 I/Choreographer( 4969): Skipped 1 frames! The application may be doing too much work on its main thread. 06-16 18:54:08.830 D/GraphicBuffer( 4969): register, handle(0x730ecfc680) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000b00) 06-16 18:54:08.845 D/Surface ( 4969): Surface::disconnect(this=0x730e909800,api=1) 06-16 18:54:08.848 D/GraphicBuffer( 4969): unregister, handle(0x72fc0a7b40) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000b00) 06-16 18:54:08.848 D/GraphicBuffer( 4969): unregister, handle(0x733e53a080) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000b00) 06-16 18:54:08.848 D/GraphicBuffer( 4969): unregister, handle(0x72fc0a7240) (w:720 h:1280 s:720 f:0x1 u:0x000b00) 06-16 18:54:08.848 D/Surface ( 4969): Surface::disconnect(this=0x730e909800,api=1) 06-16 18:54:08.850 D/OpenGLRenderer( 4969): endAllActiveAnimators on 0x72fc0bfc00 (RippleDrawable @e34b24b) with handle 0x72fc02e040 06-16 18:54:09.221 V/PhoneWindow( 4969): DecorView setVisiblity: visibility = 4, Parent = ViewRoot{621e34f org.videolan.vlc/org.videolan.vlc.gui.preferences.PreferencesActivity,ident = 6}, this = DecorView@4dc46f0[PreferencesActivity]

My phone:...
Oppo A71
Model number: CPH1717
ColorOS V3.1
Android V7.1.1
VLC Updated to latest from googleplay store V3.5.4 2023-02-20

Dumbed logfile uploaded to my google drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/197cs_ ... =drivesdk