Dlna/upnp broken in Opensuse?

[hornetster]

Running Opensuse Leap 42.2 x64, and have tried many and varied ways to get dlna working in vlc..(and others....)
Have installed the standard Opensuse version, the Pacman version, tried downloading directly from the vlc site (one click install), and finally added the videolan repo, refreshed, and did a full uninstall/reinstall - nothing. Doesn't matter how long I wait, playlist/network/upnp, I get no success. Sits there empty and appears to do nothing.
From what I have tried, Linux (not just vlc) has pathetic support for dlna.....
Is there any solution to this?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What is the VLC version?

[hornetster]

Version : vlc-2.2.4-32.3.1.x86_64

[hornetster]

Running with this command line: vlc --verbose=3 --ignore-config --no-plugins-cache --no-media-library --no-metadata-network-access --no-qt-autoload-extensions --no-qt-privacy-ask --no-auto-preparse --extraintf=rc (stolen from a website somewhere, and probably totally wrong..), I actually get a response (ie it appears to search), but I get the following from the command line:

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[00005617026ebf88] qt4 interface debug: Sorting by column -1, order 0 [00005617026ebf88] core interface debug: using interface module "qt4" [00005617026e0288] core playlist debug: adding services_discovery upnp{longname="Universal Plug'n'Play"}... [00007f8fd46df0b8] core services discovery debug: looking for services_discovery module matching "upnp": 14 candidates [00007f8fd46df0b8] upnp services discovery: Initializing libupnp on '(null)' interface [00007f8fd46df0b8] core services discovery debug: using services_discovery module "upnp" [00007f8fd46df0b8] upnp services discovery warning: search timeout

Obviously times out (don't know why..), but it DID actually search...
libupnp version 1.6.19-3.5 (is this important?)
Now running VLC 2.2.4-239.2...
Also, just checked, running Win10 in Virtualbox on this PC (Opensuse Leap42.2x64), with VLC 2.2.4, I can find and play 3x upnp sources from my local net... So they are certainly there....

Any clues?

[hornetster]

Fixed in a fashion. Not sure if it is 100%, but certainly much better!
Believe it was mostly a networking issue. Ended up deleting my configuration (which was fine, but seemed to have become corrupted somehow - eg out of 3 WiFi access points, I could only see 1 from this PC...?) Once I had reconfig'd the network, the DLNA sources on the network began appearing. Then uninstalled VLC and reinstalled the beta - just to confuse things! - but now it seems to be *mostly* working.
Thanks.