Edit: Did some more search and I’ve found out that snap applications are denied permission for top level hidden directories. I set my aria2 default save location to $HOME/.local/share/download. So that’s the problem.
I get this error when I play the files
filesystem stream error: cannot open file "file_name" (Permission denied)
It only happens if the file is inside a hidden directory under my home directory. It has no problem when the hidden folder is under /media.
$ snap version
snap 2.35.5
snapd 2.35.5
series 16
linuxmint 18.3
kernel 4.15.0-38-generic
$ vlc --version
VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.4-0-gf615db6)
VLC version 3.0.4 Vetinari (3.0.4-0-gf615db6)
Compiled by jenkins on 00a8999d3f68 (Sep 3 2018 11:57:09)
Compiler: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file.
VLC was installed by using sudo snap install vlc
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