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I don't use VLC all that much, except as a rock solid video file player on my Android DLNA "smart tv" device. but just recently I pointed my OSX copy of VLC at the audio archive on the same UPnP NAS (Synology) and found it could see my entire music library (cool!). however I was a bit frus...

I have a problem to solve: someone gave me 2 video files of the form name.avi but only one of them was playable. Both were allegedly about 1 hr 20 in length; they were of almost identical size; the first one did indeed play to that length, but the other would fail every time (VLC popped up and insta...

Hi all... I have never been able to get OSX VLC to stream any content from my Synology NAS (Syno DSM 4.3). I was hoping that the latest version 2.2.6 might finally fix this problem. I was briefly thrilled to see "NAS" actually appear in the listbox when "UPnP" was selected at lef...

I have a memory leak issue with VLC (Rincewind) and OSX 10.6.8 even when not trying to use UPnP. If I load a playlist of, say, 20 or so mp3 files into VLC and let it run, it quickly devours all the free memory on my laptop -- down to 20M free and no other app can start up normally. If I kill VLC, th...

I have never yet been able to get VLC 2.anything to see the media server on my Synology NAS. In this case, VLC is running on Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro. BubbleUPnP works great on all my Android devices, and a WDTV Live box (now retired in favour of a MINIX) was working ok w/Syno Media Server; but...

UPDATE: Tried Rincewind (2.1.1) on two different snow-leopard macs, one iMac and one laptop. Different results so far. On the iMac, enabled UPnP -- finally able to see the NAS, connect to it, and browse content! Took quite a while before it had assembled the library index, but it worked fine after t...

BTW, I did try "Enable" (menu item right-clickable on Plug-n-Play sidebar item). I Enabled and restarted VLC. No change in behaviour. Looking in the log file I find that the error is UPNP_E_SOCKET_BIND And looking in the VLC forum I find that several other people were seeing this same erro...

Same error here using OSX 10.6.8, VLC 2.0.9, and Synology NAS running Media Server (DLNA/UPNP).

WDTV box can see the NAS serving media. Android tablet can see the NAS serving media. VLC on the OSX laptop can't see it. ???

Hi all Just installed Twoflower on my 10.6.8 osx laptop. I did this in order to get dlna/upnp functionality, because I just recently built and populated a Synology 212j NAS and am running their Media Server app on it. So far things have been going well: my WDTV Live box sees the DLNA service and str...