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Found it (hopefully, for me it works): Add to the XDPF the following: <track> ... <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> ... <vlc:id>MyId</vlc:id> ... </extension> ... </track> And to the HTML; ... <A HRef=http://:xxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/requests/status.xml?comma...

Thanks for this answer!
Is there a way to figure out the ID or an other request command like Track-Number or so?

I have two questions to this command: I'm creating out of a database a XSPF playlist for the VLC and – same order and filter – a HTML page with thumbnails. I have now added an icon to the page where I want, that a click on it causes that the VLC jumps to that movie. So the hyperlink in the HTML look...

Use smb://

Works fine - Thank you!

In this case I have 3 devices: A normal Main PC with a lot of drives containing a lot of movies. A small PC which shall serve the TV with a smaller HDD on which I replace from time to time movie files from main PC A TV with an Amazon FireTV stick and the VLC app on it. All 3 components are in the sa...