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@mailand: no, the question is whether you are logged-in to iCloud on your Apple TV. You can decide not to, on setup...

@fkuehne - Sorry for my ignorance in this. Looking at the Settings on my AppleTV, I now see that I am, indeed, signed into iCloud.

...in my experience, it all depends on the extension of the file that you play.

I haven't experienced any difference depending on the extension of the video that is played. As stated in my post above, it was how I logged into the SMB server that made a difference, in the solution I found.

@malland: are you logged-in to iCloud on your Apple TV?

@fkuehne - My Apple TV is connected to the internet and I download VLC to my Apple TV from the Apple Store. I suppose that means I'm connected to iCloud, doesn't it?

@fkuehne - I finally got v3.3.1 to work in streaming through Apple TV from my MacBook Pro. I had tried deleting and reinstalling VLC on my Apple TV and had also tried toggling the couple of switches in Settings discussed in recent posts. None of that worked. What worked was how I logged into the SMB...

Yes. That‘s what I meant. Maybe you should try toggling the settings. It‘s definitely working here.

Yes, I did toggle and try both on and off combinations — and that didn't work.

...toggling the setting „automatically play next“ and turning off the setting „download covers“ has solved the issue for me.

"download covers": do you mean "download artwork'? I tried that and it didn't solve the problem.

Now on the latest v3.3.3/423. Still the same Apple TV problem of the orange "wait please" screen. Deleting and reinstalling VLC doesn't it make it work; neither does turning the “automatically play next" switch off and then on again. Tiresome. As I requested above, is there any way of...

Same problem here: trying to stream from MacOS 11.6.5 to Apple TV with VLC 332.2(422) I can access the video files with SMB, but when I click to stream them, like others above, I get an orange screen with a "wait please" message. This started after upgrading to the current version of VLC. ...