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Hi, guys.

I have been using VLC for macOS many years and want to say the same about tvOS app, but I can't.

On Apple TV, we currently don't have a UI to open random FTP servers. They need to be discovered via Bonjour and then it works. This limitation will be resolved in subsequent releases. Note that VLC-tvOS also supports SMB servers including authentication. Future releases will add support for nfs, which is already supported by the Android variants of VLC.

I have found mentioned above answer on this topic: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... tp#p445382. It was provided by Felix Paul Kuehne more than one and half years ago!

VLC 3.0 for tvOS is here, but I still can't watch the videos from the custom FTP server.

I have only one simple question: when I will be able to add custom FTP server from the VLC app on my Apple TV?

As soon as a volunteer steps-up and implements the UI needed for this. As it is already done on iOS, it is not difficult. I stopped working full-time on VLC in September 2016 so there wasn't much going on with the iOS and tvOS ports for about a year. Things are changing now and development is well under way again, but things like this are still not done. Help is welcome!

See also this issue on our tracker describing your exact issue: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-ios/issues/105