Skip to content

VLC crashes almost immediately when playing an audio file

Description

When playing an audio file, VLC will crash a few milliseconds after starting to play the track. Tried with .aac, .m4a, .wav, all crashed.

Expected behavior

VLC should play the audio track

Actual behavior

VLC will crash a few milliseconds after starting to play the track

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open VLC, play an audio track
  2. VLC crashes a few milliseconds after starting to play the track

Screenshot / video

logcat.txt

The crash seems to happen from line 1101

Abort message: '../../src/libvlc.c:480: int libvlc_MetadataRequest(libvlc_int_t *, input_item_t *, input_item_meta_request_option_t, const struct vlc_metadata_cbs *, void *, int, void *): assertion "i_options & META_REQUEST_OPTION_SCOPE_ANY" failed'

Context

App version

VLC-Android-4.0.0-preview---3050420-armv8-20240418-0930.apk

Android version

14

Device model

SM-S918B/DS (Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra)

App mode

Smartphone

Edited by Mathieu Marquer