#1150749 vlc: VLC 3.0.24-3 crashes when playing an .xspf playlists containing city cameras

Package:
vlc
Source:
vlc
Description:
multimedia player and streamer
Submitter:
Arek
Date:
2026-10-13 10:13:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1150749#5
Date:
2026-10-13 08:31:44 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?
For many months, I have been using VLC to play video streams from city cameras.
I have created .xspf playlists for this purpose.
Each file contains anywhere from a few to several dozen cameras.
Everything worked fine up to version 3.0.24-2.
Unfortunately, following the recent update on Debian from version 3.0.24-2 to
3.0.24-3, using this feature has become practically impossible.
VLC crashes immediately after I start the .xspf playlist.
When I play back individual cameras, everything is fine.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I created new playlists in VLC to generate new .xspf files.

* What was the outcome of this action?
It didn't help

* What outcome did you expect instead?
I would like my playlists, which worked for months in previous versions of VLC,
to work in this version as well.
#1150749#10
Date:
2026-10-13 10:03:42 UTC
From:
To:
I made a mistake in my previous message.
I wrote that the previous  version where everything worked was 3.0.24-2.
That was incorrect.
The earlier version of VLC where everything worked was 3.0.24-1.
I updated from version 3.0.24-1 to 3.0.24-3, and that was when my
playlists stopped working.

Best regards,
Arek