How to name a network file for a Smart TV app

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How to name a network file for a Smart TV app

Postby TDIger20 » 15 Apr 2019 22:03

In this case I have 3 devices:
A normal Main PC with a lot of drives containing a lot of movies.
A small PC which shall serve the TV with a smaller HDD on which I replace from time to time movie files from main PC
A TV with an Amazon FireTV stick and the VLC app on it.
All 3 components are in the same network, basically I can access form each component the other twos. Both PC's have the VLC 3.0x installed and XSPF files are associated with it.
For Example I can run on the Main PC a tool which scans folders on the TV-PC and creates for the folder contents play lists in several layouts. One layout is also the XSPF layout for the VLC Player, which is saved on the TV-PC. It contains for the movies network addresses. I can run this playlist on both PC's, they work everywhere, no matter if the file is on the local or remote HDD.
In the VLC App I also see both computers in the local network, see all movies in their directories can start them without problem and see also the playlist. But when I start the play list the VLC-App I get all files listed, but each with the comment "Location … can't be played".
This is like a play list looks like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <playlist xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:vlc="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/ns/0/" version="1"> <title>Test_01_00</title> <trackList> <track> <title>Beach015</title> <annotation>Beach015</annotation> <location>file://///PC_TV_02/PC_TV_02_Data/Videos/Beach/Beach015.mp4</location> <duration>500</duration> </track> …. </trackList> </playlist>
I replaced 'file:' with 'url:', tried '\' instead of '/', reduced the number of // changed the file name to lower, but no success.
Has anyone a clue how I have to spell the file names

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Re: How to name a network file for a Smart TV app

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 16 Apr 2019 08:47

Use smb://
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Re: How to name a network file for a Smart TV app

Postby TDIger20 » 16 Apr 2019 20:45

Use smb://
Works fine - Thank you!

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Re: How to name a network file for a Smart TV app

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 18 Apr 2019 20:58

cool :)
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