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Not really.

Thanks for all your help!

I take it if you are not a computer programmer you should not attempt to use VLC or ask questions about it.

You give the file URL...

Could you elaborate on that?

VLC doesn't have uPNP support in Windows, so it won't work.

Windows has uPNP so how does that work?

You give the file URL...

???

You got me on that one.

How do you set up VLC to play through a file share?

Can it be done? I have been using VLC for two weeks to play videos on my computer . It is only a 1.86GHZ but VLC will play MPEG 4 video smoothly. I am confused as to if it is possible to use the VLC to play my videos through a file share device. I have searched the forums and have tried to follow th...