VLC and Plex Media Server

[jamincollins]

Previously, I'd used VLC as a DLNA client from time to time with my MediaTomb server. The two worked well together. However, Media Tomb isn't a very feature rich DLNA server and I've decided to move to Plex Media Server.

While VLC sees the Plex server, it never resolves the server's content, no matter how long I've left it.

In the Plex server's logs I see output like the following in an infinite loop:

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Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - PlexMediaConnectDelegate::OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 14 objects of 14 total Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '52557847-e9d7-49f6-b9fa-e6b54923190d_13' with filter 'id,dc:title,res,sec:CaptionInfo,sec:CaptionInfoEx' and sort '', paged as 0 + 0 Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - Mapped client to profile Portable SDK for UPnP using header Linux/3.8.0-19-generic, UPnP/1.0, Portable SDK for UPnP devices/1.6.17 Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - Writing new preferences file. Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - PlexMediaConnectDelegate::OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 14 objects of 14 total Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '52557847-e9d7-49f6-b9fa-e6b54923190d_13' with filter 'id,dc:title,res,sec:CaptionInfo,sec:CaptionInfoEx' and sort '', paged as 0 + 0 Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - Mapped client to profile Portable SDK for UPnP using header Linux/3.8.0-19-generic, UPnP/1.0, Portable SDK for UPnP devices/1.6.17 Apr 27, 2013 02:53:28 [0x453a5460] DEBUG - Writing new preferences file.

When the VLC playlist window is closed, output like this streams on the console:

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[0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: UPNP_E_INVALID_HANDLE when trying the send() action with URL: http://1.2.3.4:32469/ContentDirectory/6bc9749a-13bc-4db0-a8ad-e86c58d26898/control.xml [0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: No response from browse() action [0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: UPNP_E_INVALID_HANDLE when trying the send() action with URL: http://1.2.3.4:32469/ContentDirectory/6bc9749a-13bc-4db0-a8ad-e86c58d26898/control.xml [0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: No response from browse() action [0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: UPNP_E_INVALID_HANDLE when trying the send() action with URL: http://1.2.3.4:32469/ContentDirectory/6bc9749a-13bc-4db0-a8ad-e86c58d26898/control.xml [0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: No response from browse() action [0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: UPNP_E_INVALID_HANDLE when trying the send() action with URL: http://1.2.3.4:32469/ContentDirectory/6bc9749a-13bc-4db0-a8ad-e86c58d26898/control.xml [0x7f2940607bb8] upnp services discovery error: No response from browse() action

I've tried multiple VLC versions (2.0.5, from Ubuntu 12.10; 2.0.6 from Ubuntu 13.04; and the latest nightly build, 2.1.0~~git20130425+r2674-0~r95~raring1, from the Ubuntu PPA). The result is the same with all versions.

Plex Media Server version: 0.9.7.22.511-4b5280f

For the Plex server I've with and without a client definition file for VLC. Without a definition file, it falls back to a generic mode. With the definition file, simply forced the folders and files to basic types.

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<Clients> <Client name="Portable SDK for UPnP"> <!-- Author: Jamin Collins --> <Identification> <Header name="User-Agent" substring="Portable SDK for UPnP devices" /> </Identification> <Settings> <Setting name="OnlyPlainVideoItems" value="true" /> <Setting name="OnlyStorageFolders" value="true" /> </Settings> <DirectPlayProfiles> <VideoProfile container="mp4" codec="h264,mpeg4" audioCodec="aac" /> </DirectPlayProfiles> </Client> </Clients>

For now, I'm using djmount to provide access to the Plex server's content, without issue.

Thoughts? Anyone have VLC working with Plex?

[Roseysdaddy]

Im having the exact same issues. VLC sees the plex server under Universal Plug 'n Play, but never does anything, whether I've got one file on the dlna or 4k. Just no response.

[hrvstr]

Just wanted to report that I have the same problem. It used to work in previous versions in VLC although buggy where VLC would quit unexpectedly very often. The funny thing is the Plex Server works flawlessly with VLC for iOS and generally every other UPNP player i tried so far (XBMC,PMS,some iOS clients).