UPnP support?

[Mr5o1]

Hi All,

I'm having trouble with UPnP in vlc version 1.1.5 - am running opensuse 11.3 - The wierd thing is .. it was working a few days ago.

I have a NAS running amahi (fedora12) with miniDLNA running as the UPnP server.
Things I've tried:
-disabled firewall altogether (just to be sure its not a firewall problem)
-confirmed UPnP server is up: win7 machine can access it, as can totem from my opensuse machine (same one I'm trying to get vlc to work from).
-ensured Preferences>All>Playlist>Services Discovery>Universal Plug'n'Play is enabled

But.. when I view Playlist>Local Network>Universal Plug'n'Play no content is listed. I'm sure I tried this a few days ago and it "just worked". I cant think of anything I have changed since.

Using my google-fu turns up a bunch of posts (this forum & others) about compiling from source with the "enable_upnp" flag or whatever it is.. but with later versions that's enabled by default right?

Thanks in advance for any direction...

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

If you see the UPnP category in the playlist, then VLC was built with --enable-upnp anyhow. I can only think of three explanations:

• software update (VLC or otherwise) causing a regression,
• security framework (firewall or otherwise) reconfigured to block VLC,
• it never worked and your memory is flawed.

[Mr5o1]

Thanks Remi,

option 3 is a possibility. even if that were the case, according to miniDLNA, vlc is the recommended client for linux. So even if it never did work... it should work.

[nunoragil]

I am having the same problem.
My PS3 detects minidlna but my VLC player on my iMac does not detect a thing...
Any hints? :/
firewall off
upnp enabled in VLC preferences

Thx u

[jam123]

Try UNCHECKING upnp in Preferences->Playlist->Services Discovery. Save. Exit and restart vlc. I believe it a bug, see my recent post...

[jam123]

...also try turning off your firewall.

[nunoragil]

Hello, Ive posted a reply in this thread viewtopic.php?f=13&t=86007&p=284801#p284801
btw, firewall is off and upnp in Preferences->Playlist->Services Discovery unchecked :/

help?!

[diilbert]

Was there ever a solution to this. I have downloaded and install the latest nightly on WIndows 7 and have not been able to discover any of the sources on my network. I have removed the discovery settings from preferences, restarted VLC and disabled my firewall without success. Any suggestions?