Android: the 'Stream with" option on video files doesn't work with the popular VLC for Android app

[Apfelgriebs]

Steps to reproduce

1. Connect to a NextCloud server with the NextCloud Android app
2. Navigate to a video file
3. Select the 'stream with...' option on that file and choose VLC player since the internal player doesn't support that many video formats

Expected behaviour

• VLC should stream the selected file.

Actual behaviour

• VLC doesn't stream the file, instead of the file's name it displays a long illegible string. The spinning icon indicates that the app tries to load something, but it doesn't change.

Meanwhile, VLC works just fine in streaming files selected via a different WebDAV app (example: Fx file explorer). That tells me that the WebDAV connection works fine and that VLC player does so, too.

Environment data

Android version:
Android Version: 9

Device model:
Phone: Xiaomi POCO F1 (POCO F1)

Stock or customized system:
Rom: lineage_beryllium-userdebug 9

Nextcloud app version:
3.9.2

Nextcloud server version:
NextCloud17.0.2.1
(on a raspberry pi 4b with NextCloudPi 1.20.1)

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[tobiasKaminsky]

Can you provide us additional infos via logcat? https://github.com/nextcloud/android/blob/master/README.md#getting-debug-info-via-logcat

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[tobiasKaminsky]

@rullzer there are now quite a lot streaming issues…
Do you have an idea how we can tackle down the root cause of them?

[ezaquarii]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 02:51:24AM -0700, Tobias Kaminsky wrote:

@rullzer there are now quite a lot streaming issues…
Do you have an idea how we can tackle down the root cause of them?

@rullzer
@tobiasKaminsky

Test account could help, perhaps?

[tobiasKaminsky]

Can you create us a test account, test if the problem occurs also there and if so send the credentials to tobias at nextcloud dot com with a reference to this issue?

[szaimen]

Can you create us a test account, test if the problem occurs also there and if so send the credentials to tobias at nextcloud dot com with a reference to this issue?

The bug occurs with the testaccount, as well.
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[tobiasKaminsky]

@szaimen I uploaded two files. Avi is not working for me, but mp4 is working.
However it takes ~30s to get a video…

[szaimen]

@szaimen I uploaded two files. Avi is not working for me, but mp4 is working.
However it takes ~30s to get a video…

Yes, it is really slow and not a problem of my server since it plays fine in the browser.

Why doesn't the avi file stream with vlc? it shouldn't be a codec problem since vlc support nearly all codecs. So I would guess this is a problem of the nextcloud app?

Where you able to run logcat to get some protocolls while trying the stream with option?

BTW: The same problem occus if the file is already downloaded to the android app and if I click on stream with vlc afterwards, which should really work since it is already locally available. So definitely a nextcloud app bug... The open with vlc option works fine after downloading.

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