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This is a known and annoying limitation of the current interface of VLC on macOS. We re-wrote all that for version 4 and the problem will no longer occur. Sadly, the fix is too invasive to be backported to the current 3.x versions. Thanks for this. Makes sense, knowing it'll be addressed in a futur...

I have a UPnP media server (my PVR box) and on MacOS, any attempt to open a 'folder' will both open that folder, and automatically start playing the first item in that folder. I'm double-clicking a folder like recording\Frasier and it plays an episode from that location, or opening "recordings&...

Thanks for all the info. My bad for the latest 3.5.3, it seems that it's not available on "Fire" devices yet. We tried to reproduce the issue on a Fire TV Stick (2nd gen) and the servers took ages to be discovered. We had the servers appearing on the interface in something like 10 minutes...

Hello, this could be a bug on our side but first please ensure your VLC App is up to date to the latest 3.5.3! We had DLNA bugs in the previous version. I quickly tested on a FireTV and had no issue discovering DLNA server. Might try to reproduce on the 2nd gen stick if you still encounter the issu...

I have a DLNA server in my home and installing VLC on my Mac, phone and Fire Tablet all can easily discover it. However on my 2nd-gen Fire TV Stick it can't see it, and attempts to manually add the IP address are unsuccessful. I installed via the Amazon app-store this week. I was wondering initially...