I eventually rebooted from an SSD backup of the internal drive and ran an over-install on the internal drive from a full blown 10.13.4 installer. All issues resolved. Bottom line, Backup before you update (even on a real Mac).
It was success to decode hwaccel with 720p, But failed with 1080p 720p ([email protected]) 0.650vvd Pixel formats supported by decoder: videotoolboxvld yuv420p 0.650vvd Codec profile: High (0x64) 0.650vvd Requesting pixfmt 'videotoolboxvld' from decoder. 0.921dffmpeg/video h264: Reinit context to 1280x720, pixfmt: videotoolboxvld 0.945ivd Using hardware decoding (videotoolbox). That's what the error says though and that one is returned by the Framework via.
Videotoolbox can be a bit picky. Try it several times and see if it always fails at ffmpeg/video h264: VideoToolbox session not available. For testing try to close every other App, especially browsers, since they could use it in the background. Try VLC for testing, they use their own videotoolbox implementation and not the ffmpeg one i believe(?). If theirs work something isn't working correctly and i would say it's probably a problem with ffmpeg then.
I tried VLC 3.0.1. I've similar issue (not able to use HW acceleration) in Mojave Mac Pro 5,1 with GTX 680. Below are the error: vd Pixel formats supported by decoder: videotoolboxvld yuv420p vd Codec profile: Main (0x4d) vd Requesting pixfmt 'videotoolboxvld' from decoder. ffmpeg/video h264: Failed setup for format videotoolboxvld: hwaccel initialisation returned error. However, I didn't have the following error ffmpeg/video h264: VideoToolbox session not available. Let me know if I should report it as different bug.
I screwed something up. I just got vlc for apple tv 4 and enabled file sharing from my mac mini 2014 running high sierra 10.13.4. It ran great but it allowed anonymous login, so i thought i'd restrict it because I live in high rise and use wifi. Anyway, I deleted some users ('staff', 'Everyone') and added a new admin. Now nothing works.
Vlc recognizes my computer in smb but when i try to access it the folder reads empty. Can't see anything on iphone app, either. Is there someway to reset the thing? I tried diskutil resetUserPermissions / id -u in terminal, nothing doing. Any advice would be appreciated. You should be able to restore the ATV4 to factory settings.
To do this:. On your Apple TV go to Settings System Reset. You'll see two options:. Reset: This reset your Apple TV to its factory settings and won't update the software.
This can be done without an internet connection. Reset and Update: As above, this resets your Apple TV to its factory settings, but also installs any available software updates.
Obviously you will need an internet connection for this to complete. Once your Apple TV is reset, reconfigure it by adding your Apple ID, etc.
Once you've logged back in, re-download the apps you want. I had a similar issue - VLC would only show empty folders once connected - this was happening from the first time I opened VLC on my Apple TV. My shares are also on a Mac Mini (2012 model) running 10.13.4 I got it to work by turning off file sharing, then disabling AFP sharing and only using SMB.
Once I turned file sharing back on, VLC could see all my shared folders. To change sharing options, go into System Preferences, Sharing. Oh, and I use a password-protected account called 'media' for accessing the shares from networked devices. I don't use anonymous logins. Hope this helps, or you got the issue sorted already. I'm also trying out the app 'infuse' and it looks nice, but with some videos it wants me to buy a subscription to use the app to continue, so not sure yet if it's something I'll stick with.