VLC Streaming to LG Smart TV

[TALON]

Hi guys, having some trouble with this, and don't seem able to find a thread already addressing my specific problem, so have created one. If I have missed it in my searches please kindly direct me to it.

Okay, so what I'm trying to do should be fairly straightforward, but after searching on-line for over an hour and trying the fixes available there I'm none the wiser.

So essentially I'm just trying to use VLC to stream footage from my PC to my LG Smart TV. It is all connected to the network wirelessly and works fine, for example I can stream Youtube videos from my PC across the network to the TV without issue. However when I attempt to Stream content from VLC I get nadda. I followed a step by step guide from Wondershare, but still nothing:

https://www.wondershare.com/vlc/stream-vlc-to-tv.html

Is it just a function that VLC is incapable of, or am I just missing something obvious? I'm currently using Windows 8.1 FYI.

Oh, and with Media Player there was some mention of a DLNA Server as a way to facilitate streaming between your PC and a Smart TV. Is there one in VLC, or some equivalent I'm not finding?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.


Regards,

TALON

[Jarod997]

Looking to try and do this too.

I tried the Wondershare tips and I'm wondering if they purposely are doing something wrong to try and get you to use their software. I can get their DLNA server to show up on my TV, I run the custom ALT-F firmware on my D-Link file server with the miniDLNA server and that shows up on my LG Smart TV - but for some things I'd much prefer to do it with VLC but no luck yet.