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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...

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.

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.

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

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

...also try turning off your firewall.

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?!

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?