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Ive also tried it from a windows 7 pc as a share and the same thing happens - SMB as the protocol and sometimes it will list directories and files, and play fine. most of the time it doesnt.

Hi - thanks for replying.

Its all on the standard internal 192.168.1.x 255.255.255.0 network
The server is just a bog standard file share from server 2012 R2.

And its all ipv4. 6 is disabled.

Hi Hoping someone can help. There are threads around SMB not playing at all, crashing or not seeing shares but nothing similar to my issue i can find. VLC on my iPad sometimes works fine when playing from a local server with a drive shared that has folder in categories of films. When it lists these ...