Mini-player prevents audio streaming

[Wu Ming]

I have an unexpected result when trying to launch audio streaming from URL via Apple Shortcuts. iOS 15 and VLC Player latest.

If mini-player is non present, i.e. I haven’t been playing anything before, mini-player opens and streaming begins as expected.

If mini-player is present instead, playing audio or not makes no difference, it closes and audio doesn’t begin to play.

A bug or some setting I am not aware of? Thanks for sharing.

[Wu Ming]

Adding details. Minimized mini-player is not available. If I close it audio stops.

[Wu Ming]

Minimized mini-player not available on iPad as well now. Something changed in recent updates?

[Wu Ming]

Timing is important. With VLC player newly opened:
1. start and subsequently stop streaming audio with x-callback-url
2. open vlc and wait one sec before invoking another x-callback-url
3. mini-player is minimized and streaming from new url begins
4. open vlc and wait one sec before invoking another x-callback-url
5. mini-player is briefly maximized and then closed. Streaming does not begin

So I was able to invoke audio streaming from url with x-callback-url twice successfully by adding some delay. But eventually mini-player disappeared and didn’t work as expected.