Streaming Video from NAS Server - Missing Files
Posted: 19 May 2020 16:21
Hello,
Apologies if this has been asked before, I've had a quick look in the thread and couldn't find anything useful!
I have VLC on my iphone 7 and also on the Android MXR-4K Device. I have many movies (copied from my own DVD's I should add!) saved on a Buffalo Linkstation NAS Server.
Neither VLC Apps (i.e. ios or android) it seems can see all of the video files when I searching in VLC 'by folder'. Some are there, but not all. You can, however, find the missing files hidden in random places like 'by date'
This doesn't seem logical to me - how can some of the files show up in the 'by folder' folder, but not all of them?!
It also seems that they get added to the 'by folder' folder after a random period of time. In other words, if i added a file today, it would not appear, but might do some time later. I know they're all there, but just not in the 'by folder' folder.
All of the files are saved from the same desktop PC directly to the server - VLC on my desktop finds them perfectly as it obviously links directly to the file destination via the PC.
I'm sure it's a quirk of the software, but very annoying - any help would be appreciated. Every time I try and show off by trying to stream a movie from my armchair, I look a bit of cock when the file's seemingly missing!!
Many thanks,
Ian
Apologies if this has been asked before, I've had a quick look in the thread and couldn't find anything useful!
I have VLC on my iphone 7 and also on the Android MXR-4K Device. I have many movies (copied from my own DVD's I should add!) saved on a Buffalo Linkstation NAS Server.
Neither VLC Apps (i.e. ios or android) it seems can see all of the video files when I searching in VLC 'by folder'. Some are there, but not all. You can, however, find the missing files hidden in random places like 'by date'
This doesn't seem logical to me - how can some of the files show up in the 'by folder' folder, but not all of them?!
It also seems that they get added to the 'by folder' folder after a random period of time. In other words, if i added a file today, it would not appear, but might do some time later. I know they're all there, but just not in the 'by folder' folder.
All of the files are saved from the same desktop PC directly to the server - VLC on my desktop finds them perfectly as it obviously links directly to the file destination via the PC.
I'm sure it's a quirk of the software, but very annoying - any help would be appreciated. Every time I try and show off by trying to stream a movie from my armchair, I look a bit of cock when the file's seemingly missing!!
Many thanks,
Ian