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Monday, December 25, 2017

DLNA and UPnP and VLC

DLNA is an attempt to normalize media interoperability between devices. It comes from UPnP. It makes it easy to cast media (video, audio, images) content. Modern TVs are able to deal with this already, so you can stream from a DLNA server to you TV. But TVs aren't the only devices able to show video and audio streams. Among other media players the Video-LAN-Client (VLC) can also access the stream.

While on the Android version of VLC this is straight forward by just opening VLC itself and it will show the folder shared, for desktop versions there is some work required.

Luckily it's very easy, although hidden; I would had put it under "File -> open" instead of the playlist. Instead you just open the playlist (Show ->Playlist, or press CTRL-L) and there you select Local Network and there Universal Plug'n Play and you should see the shared folder(s) and inside the media files.

Happy streaming!

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