UPnP files only show properly after being opened manually

[vintage]

I'm using UPnP Inspector, and that sees everything on my network perfectly.

With VLC, I can see my PS3 media server under the playlist, under local network, under UPnP. I see the top level. Now the funny stuff:

All the folders in UPnP show as playable files, and don't play.
If I go to the main VLC window and right click and do "Open Media" and then "Open Network" and then I paste the URL for a file (that I get from UPnP Inspector) it plays perfectly. And after some time and reboots, eventually the folder for that file shows up in Playlist > Local Network > UPnP.

However all the other folders on my server show as actual music files, and are of course unplayable. Until I do the stuff in the previous paragraph for a particular file in a directory, and then that folder will eventually appear after vlc is restarted few times.

To help explain, below is a pic. On the left is UPnP Inspector and you can properly see all the directories. On the right is VLC's media browser, and you can see 5 Springsteen albums (randomly chosen and loaded manually as described above, so they aren't in order) properly loaded as folders, but then you can see a long list below those, started with "Born to Run", that are not properly loading as folders.



So apparently something is a bit off with the UPnP discovery. Is there a way to reset the discovery and have it do it again? I have a gigantic library... adding the folders one at a time isn't going to work...
Thank you,
Carl

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It is a known issue that VLC will always fetch the all library (index). This can take quite a while and make it look like it does not work.

A lot of work would be needed to fix this, and nobody has volunteered to do it so far nor did any sponsor hire anyone to do it.

[vintage]

Remi, are you sure this is the issue? All of the folder names show up, BUT they are listed as tracks, not folders. And individual folders seem to be discovered correctly AFTER I manually "Open Media" > "Open Network" > URL for a track.
Seems to me like the program mistakes the folders as files...
Carl

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It could also be a bug. But it seems statistically improbable that only one user would have had the problem. PS3 is one of the most common, possibly the most commonly used UPnP A/V device in the market.

Make sure you have a recent VLC version.