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VLC player black screen when repeat one or all on IOS

Your operating system and the precise version (include the Linux distribution, or the version of Windows).

iPadOS 16.4.1

Your VLC media player version.

VLC for iOS, version: 3.4.0 (508)

The hardware you use. Make sure to name all the audio and video hardware in question that might be related to VLC's usage.

iPad Pro 12.9 inch 6th generation

Complete logs as those from the messages dialog, verbosity to 2 (GUI mode) or the -vvv switch (CLI mode) vlcdebug-2023-05-09--04-26-40.log

The exact steps to reproduce the problem.

  1. On Network page, use Local files to open any video file in "On My iPad" or other locations.
  2. Use repeat one or repeat all mode to play video
  3. when play finishes, video is repeated with black screen, audio is played normally however
  4. minimize VLC player from iOS or minimize video from VLC player itself, then restore it will recover video.
  5. video files stored in VLC storage have no such issue

The reproducibility of the problem: does it occur every time? If not, how often?

Every time

If applicable, the type (movie, music, subtitle) and the format of the file being played. If known, also the codec(s) in the file.

Any video file

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