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moved to infuse, works like a charm...

I tested Infuse, and I can confirm that, unlike VLC, it has no problem saving credentials.

Thanks, unfortunately, it does indeed appear that no-one at VLC cares about this issue. Too bad.

tvOS: 17.5.1 VLC: 3.5.10 (630) Issue: VLC does not save credentials (user/password/port) when accessing a Samba (SMBv1) share; the "Save" button apparently does nothing, and I have to re-enter log/pass/port each time I access that share. (A previous version of VLC -- unfortunately I do not...

Update:

(1) Trashed all VLC prefs -- made no difference.

(2) Other devices on the network (iOS players, incl VLC for iOS; hardware players) have no problem discovering the UPnP servers.

(3) On the same Mac, XBMC has no problems discovering the servers or playing media served by them.

VLC 2.1.5 Rincewind, Mac OS X 10.7.5 Problem: I have two UPnP servers on the LAN, Twonky and Asset UPnP. Both are fully accessible from iPhone, iPad, and network players, but VLC can't access either. Symptom: Launch VLC, go to Local Network: Universal Plug'n'Play. One of the servers (never both) sho...

Thanks for your reply.

Looks like there's no interest in this issue. Too bad. Anyway, here's an update. I tested several other players. Of these, AVPlayerHD , MoliPlayerHD , 8player have the same issue as VLC for iOS -- tracks sorted alphabetically by title tag, instead of by track number. By contrast, media:connect and A...

I use a WD MyCloud [Twonky 7.2.8] as DLNA media server on my LAN. Problem: When I access with VLC for iOS 2.3.0 (iOS 7.1.2) music served by Twonky, tracks are always sorted alphabetically -- which makes them pretty much useless. I checked the Twonky config file server:/usr/local/twonkymedia-7/resour...