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Alas no - the problem persists. I *think* I found that this, in the videolan bug tracking system, was actually a known problem. It's just that no one has had the time to go in and fix it. The solution I found (not great) was to use the vlc as a 'server' on the machine hosting the files, and then use...

I had a similar issue last year. Fixed it by changing the Energy Saving prefs in MacOS to stop drives going to sleep That's a good idea - but I checked and I had already turned off all the sleep options on the Mac Mini's power settings Preferences. It's also weird that I can login to the drive from...

Thanks - I will add my commentary to the defect tracking system (hopefully that help whoever ends up working on this defect).

Unfortunately I have the most recent version of VLC for apple TV....

I have VLC 3.0.3 on a new Apple TV (not 4k) running tvOS 12.1.2. I am connecting, using Local Network file access, to a SMB-exported folder containing MKV video files, located on a Mac Mini (late 2012) running OS X 10.14.3 VLC can login & connect to the SMB exported folder and let me view and pl...