Crash-causing bug in VLC for Android

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So I got a new tablet and as I was setting things up on it, I noticed that VLC kept crashing upon trying to parse my audio files. Android’s logcat gave me the following lines:

10-01 17:49:23.228 3650 3685 E VLC-std : libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type std::invalid_argument: stoi: no conversion
10-01 17:49:23.228 3650 3711 E libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type std::invalid_argument: stoi: no conversion
--------- beginning of crash
10-01 17:49:23.228 3650 3711 F libc : Fatal signal 6 (SIGABRT), code -1 (SI_QUEUE) in tid 3711 (DefaultDispatch), pid 3650 (main)

with the following backtrace:

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Crash-causing bug in VLC for Android