How protect apps from auto-upgrade?

[khallergard]

Have had to change my PC's SMB Server from version 1 to version 2.  This works fine with file managers such as X-plore and with streaming videos from the PC with KODI, but not with VLC.   https://tinyurl.com/y7a7lsng

By downgrading VLC from the present version 3.2.12 to version 3.1.7 it VLC works again.  But how to avoid it being auto-upgraded back to 3.2.12?  Would like to keep the auto-upgrade for other apps.

[rooobb · Accepted solution]

AFAIK there is no way to have automatically what you are looking for. You shoud disable automatic update globally for playstore and manually update only the app you want

[khallergard]

Thank you Roob!  It was the answer I suspected.  Found a different solution: Installed VLC version 3.3.0-beta6, which does work with SMB2!