The latest version of VLC, version 4.0, cannot play HLS streams.

Dear friends!

This issue was fixed a year ago, but for unknown reasons, the latest version is no longer able to play HLS streams.

Windows 10 19044 21H1

https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc/nightly-win64/20250922-0423/vlc-4.0.0-dev-win64-53301c22.exe

Link

https://ryderjet.com/stream/NklVZ0U37r64YQk8gE8cvQ/hjkrhuihghfvu/1758578549/14357080/index-f1-v1-a1.m3u8

logs

[ffmpeg/demuxer] hls: Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: png, none): unspecified size
[ffmpeg/demuxer] Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options
● Video  --vid=1  (png)
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid argument.
[lavf] ...treating it as fatal error.

VLC 4.0: Some .m3u8 can't be played #28757 (closed)

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