VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby robneal81 » 14 Jan 2016 15:42

NFS support really would be the best option. I hope there are plans to support that someday.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby JerryV » 15 Jan 2016 05:22

I am having exactly the same problem trying to connect to the shares on my Windows 7 PC.

VLC sees the PC but when I try to connect it displays "Empty Folder". I have the problem whether I try connect as a user (without a password) or with anonymous login.

I have no problems connecting to my Synology NAS.

I would like to thank the team for bringing VLC to Apple TV. It doesn't work for me yet, but I'm sure the problem will be fixed soon.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby os2hk » 16 Jan 2016 04:43

Hi yes my VLC on Apple TV is also showing empty folders .I use mac 10.11.2 .I hope there are plans to support that someday

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby nightmare28 » 16 Jan 2016 06:41

Hello
I have Tested it with different Timecapsule settings (user/ Account/ password only) but everytime there is the empty folder. with VLC for iPad/ iPhone it is possible to Access The SMB Share on the Timecapsule

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby ssbmaccom » 16 Jan 2016 16:41

Maybe this is caused by a small typo I found while building VLCKit with Xcode and had a look at the warnings.
I have submitted a patch for this one, but unfortunately git-send-mail has authentication problems with my iCloud mail account (using two-factor). So I sent the patch file manually to vlc-devel. I hope it gets accepted this way ;-)

The symptom of the typo would be, that fileURLs are initialized with a nil object, and therefore items won't be available. But I assume this would only cause to fail starting such streams.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fkuehne » 16 Jan 2016 18:16

No, the issue you fixed is not related to this issue and in fact not even present on the 2.7 branch we used for the initial release.

There are issues in the underlying libDSM library we used to discover, browse and stream from SMB servers. We are confident to have those resolved and the fixes will be in 1.0.2 (as the fixes were too late for 1.0.1).
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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby mykeydred » 16 Jan 2016 23:42

Glad to know I am not the only one with a Mac(OS 10.11.02) who gets empty folder message when configuring VLC.
Any idea when the issue will be resolved?

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby trucker » 17 Jan 2016 02:16

Same problem.

Unusable.

connected to a NAS box using username and password over SMB.
Blank folders

Connected using UPnP
No audio on most files
The file that is being selected isnt the one that is being played (eg you select the dora the explorer and get robocop ultra violent edition).

Not really usable yet guys.



Infuse and plex players are a lot more stable at the moment and play more videos.


Got further than the windows RT version that was promised and never appeared but still not good.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby tdotto » 20 Jan 2016 13:52

Get an "empty folder" message with a basic SMB share using OS X El Capitan and most recent iOS release (9.2) when is a patch being released?

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fkuehne » 20 Jan 2016 17:25

Since version 1.0.1 of VLC for Apple TV was approved last night, we were able to submit a patch for review today. Now, it depends on Apple to approve it - typically by the end of the week or early next week. Regrettably, there is not much we can do to speed-up the process.
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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fredramsey » 20 Jan 2016 17:59

Thanks for the update!

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby tdotto » 20 Jan 2016 18:21

That is indeed great news, will look forward to the update. Question: Does this update fix tvOS and iOS or just one of them?
Since version 1.0.1 of VLC for Apple TV was approved last night, we were able to submit a patch for review today. Now, it depends on Apple to approve it - typically by the end of the week or early next week. Regrettably, there is not much we can do to speed-up the process.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby lesarros » 20 Jan 2016 19:18

With version 1.0.1 i can connect now with smb to time capsule disk.
User:Guest
Password: i leave empty
after Save and connect to time capsule disk and can see all the folders and play video files.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby robneal81 » 20 Jan 2016 22:49

I'm sorry for the dumb question, but how did you get the new version? Mine didn't update.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby lesarros » 20 Jan 2016 22:57

Go to tvos appstore/purchaces check your apps,click vlc and you see Update click and download new version

At greek tvos appstore,vlc new version is online from afternoon.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby robneal81 » 20 Jan 2016 23:08

Thanks, I was able to update to 1.0.1. Unfortunately, I'm still getting "Empty Folder". I'll try again when there's a new version available.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fredramsey » 20 Jan 2016 23:21

Every time I update, it spins and comes back to the button which still says Update. Have done this several times. Wow.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby lesarros » 20 Jan 2016 23:26

Every time I update, it spins and comes back to the button which still says Update. Have done this several times. Wow.
Same with me,it's a bug from tvos.
Go out from appstore,return to home page and you see vlc updated.

@robneal81 go to settings/system and restart atv4

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fredramsey » 21 Jan 2016 00:47

Same with me,it's a bug from tvos.
Go out from appstore,return to home page and you see vlc updated.

@robneal81 go to settings/system and restart atv4
I did, still showing empty folder. So if it did update, it didn't fix anything for me.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby lesarros » 21 Jan 2016 00:53

I have time capsule 3TB hard disk not the latest model.Before update it was empty folder for me too.With 1.0.1 it works now.I don't know how to help.
You have enable Guest access with airport utility to time capsule?

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fredramsey » 21 Jan 2016 00:55

Mines just the hard drive of my iMac. File sharing is on.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby lesarros » 21 Jan 2016 00:58

You install SMBup in your mac?What Mac OS you have?

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fredramsey » 21 Jan 2016 00:59

Latest OSX. I wasn't aware I needed to install anything. The machine shows up in the list, but I get the Empty Folder screen.

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby lesarros » 21 Jan 2016 01:06

If you are in 10.11 like me,you need this free utility:http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41541/smbup

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Re: VLC for tvOS - Empty Folder over SMB

Postby fredramsey » 21 Jan 2016 01:22

Installed that. Now I see the Movies folder, which is filled with AVIs, but VLC shows it empty.


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