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I have DVD content that I am streaming via an SMB share to VLC on ATV-4K. Some files play reasonably well, but it's also common for motion in the video to be "choppy" and uneven. When I play the same file via VLC from the desktop, it's fine. I've tried toggling interlacing and HW accelerat...

Confirmed that this delay only occurs in the Testflight release. I switched back and forth twice between the App Store version and the Testflight version. The App Store version always started playing content immediately, while the Testflight version had a long delay before content began.

In my case, it seems to working fine in fetching the cover art from TMDB for most items, but only rarely does it display the item title without a filename extension. Is this a bug?

I've been beta-testing the latest TestFlight Apple TV 4K VLC (3.1.0 395) and have encountered a mostly but not 100% reproducible problem where I select video content from an SMB share and the player just gets stuck with "please wait" and a spinning wheel for quite a while -- as long as 1-2...

To clarify: Both Infuse and VLC on Apple TV autodiscovered the SMB share. From Infuse, I could access all the files on the SMB share without any problem. From VLC, I got the "empty folder" error until I made the modifications to smb.conf noted above. Even though I was able to fix this by m...

The content I see browsing my local network (SMB share) from VLC for Apple TV is mostly identified by filename, including the extension, rather than the title of the content. In one instance, it seemed VLC actually read the "title" tag from an MKV file and displayed the content title rathe...

I've (mostly) figured it out. First, I noticed after restarting smbd/nmbd many times and restarting ATV-VLC (without changing settings for either of them), sometimes I was able to avoid the "empty folder" option and access content, but usually not. Then, I turned on verbose logging in SMB ...

Replicated issue with file uploaded to VLC over network - identical behavior.

Replicated issue with hardware decoding off - identical behavior.

I have content with this audio stream: Stream #0:1: Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA), 48000 Hz, 6.1, s32p (24 bit) (default) When I play it on VLC or any other player from a computer to a 5.1 surround stereo system, it plays fine. When I play it with the latest Testflight build of VLC for Apple TV, the output...

Infuse sees the SMB share as well as all of the files without a problem.

VLC (latest Testflight build) sees the auto-discovered SMB share but only shows "empty folder".

VLC shows the contents of the folder if I go through "connect to generic server."

To be clear, ATV-VLC autodiscovers the SMB share with no problem. It’s just when I select it, I always get an empty folder. When I go through the “connect to generic server” option and manually identify the same server by IP address, I do not get an empty folder. I’ll follow up on your other suggest...

All relevant devices are connected to the network via gigabit Ethernet. My router is an Eero (I have several Eero nodes throughout my LAN but all are connected via Ethernet). It makes no difference if I set a fixed IP address or use DHCP. I'm also using ATV-4K. It's interesting that the hosts VLC di...

I'm on fully updated Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I did find a fix, though. For NFS, it turns out I just needed to tweak options on the server in /etc/exports: /home/path 192.168.4.0/255.255.0.0(ro,subtree_check,sync,all_squash,insecure) seems to work. For SMB, I'm able to connect to the share through the &q...

Does anyone have any suggestions of things I could tweak server-side for my SMB share or NFS export to avoid the "empty folder" problem? When I first installed VLC on AppleTV I didn't always see this error, but now I get it 100% of the time so I'm unable to play any content. Same issue wit...

Just tried the testflight version on latest gen Apple TV. Still getting "empty folder" for every share. I also tried exporting a folder as a NFS share and connecting through the new NFS functionality--"empty folder" with that as well.

If you are keen maybe sign up as a Beta Tester.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/bbyXP6Lx

Thanks for the tip! Just tried it from the iPhone and the empty folder problem seems fixed. Will try on Apple TV shortly.

Does that mean it’s been released and submitted to the App Store for approval?

Is there any workaround for the empty folder problem in the meantime? Makes it impossible to play content. Or any ETA on the fix?

We didn't come around to implement this in the last two years. This is annoying but due to the very small team working on VLC. It is on our list of things to do, but well...

I don't know if beta testers would be all at useful, but I'm happy to be one if you need volunteers.

It would be very useful to get content in a "list view" and have sorting options (e.g. name, modified date) when browsing content on the Apple TV client. The desktop client has a variety of ways to navigate content, but there does not appear to be anything similar for Apple TV (also couldn...

Is anyone working on this? Wondering if it is on the roadmap at all. As best I can tell, as of now, VLC still can't change the framerate to match the content.

Is this still not working? Just installed the latest VLC release on an Apple TV 4K (7/2/2020) and can't figure out any way to get up to search box.

I've seen several historical threads on these problems but can't figure out if there are any canonical solutions: (1) No matter what I do, VLC for Apple TV always prompts me for username/password, even when I chose to save them. Is this a bug? Any workarounds? (2) I often get "empty folder"...

I gather from prior threads that gapless playback (whether video or audio) is not supported and unless I'm missing something isn't happening any time soon. So I'm wondering if there are any settings at all (or other techniques) that could be used to minimize the very noticeable pause that occurs whe...

Running vlc 2.1.4 win7/64 bit. I can install the extension and "remember position" appears in my "view" menu, but the menu item is inoperative. No check mark appears when I select it. The debug console says: [0000000002106e30] lua generic error: Could not activate extension! Any ...