Okay so I don't know what it is about my setup, but apparently it's something about communication between the Xbox and this one instance of Windows that is not working. On top of Windows I am running the same version of Windows 10 in a virtual machine with the exact same anonymous share settings, bu...
Any traction with this issue? I'm having the exact same problem. Sharing videos from my Windows 10 computer. VLC for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick can browse and play files perfectly fine. VLC for XBox says "your input could not be opened. VLC is unable to open the mrl smb://...." I kno...
After doing some research and realizing when certain events occurred, I've come to believe this is happening because VLC uses the SMBv1 protocol to connect to a PC, which Microsoft has not only discontinued, but forcefully disabled on any currently updated PC. It's not a bad move, since SMBv1 is ver...
I am also having this issue. VLC on my Fire-TV worked perfectly until a month or two ago. I would go to Local Network and select my desktop via SMB and I could access all of my shared folders. Now when I select my desktop via SMB I get the spinning wheel and it never connects to my shared folders.