[vlc-devel] Bug report - VLC nightly on CM11 Android 4.2.2 - Could not access external storage

[Edward Wang]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:41 AM, S Loewenthal <sjl at klunky.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>   I just upgraded from CM10.3 to CM 11 on my Samsung i9100 and noticed that
> VLC cannot read from /storage/sdcard1 (external SD card) , and had no
> problems reading from /storage/sdcard0  ( internal )
>
>  VLC reads from the wrong mount point when she should use /storage/sdcard1
> instead of  /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 in my opinion, unless CM11 has
> responsibility for providing apps with the external storage directory path,
> because then I should be posting on XDA.

That path is provided from the Android OS.

Can you access anything if you add '/storage/sdcard1' explicitly as a
custom path in VLC Android preferences?

Regards,
Edward