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Universal Media Server doesn't show up in Windows Media Player and VLC Media Player #55

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Setup Universal Media Server
2. Make sure it's started and working fine on other DLNA client devices
3. Try connecting to it using Windows Media Player and VLC Media Player.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
In VLC Media Player, Select "Playlist" option > Local Network > Universal Plug 
N Play
On accessing this, you will be prompted by Windows Firewall to allow access to 
VLC, please accept it.
You will notice that Universal Media Server doesn't show up in the list as 
expected.

In Windows Media Player, it should appear in left-pane but it doesn't show up 
there either.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
UMS 2.6.0
VLC 2.0.5
WMP 12 and 11.

Please provide any additional information below.
I found this relevant link in forum for WMP but it isn't confirmed that this is 
resolved.
http://www.universalmediaserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=654&p=4368#p4368

I think enabling UPNP for WMP would enable it for VLC as well but that will 
need testing.

And I would like to take a chance to thanks for all the effort put in by you 
guys. 
Awesome work!!!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by stark...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2013 at 5:12

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I forgot to mention OS, It's running on Windows 8. And I have Windows 8 and 
Windows 7 on other machines from where I can't access using WMP or VLC.

Original comment by stark...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2013 at 3:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
WMP detection is fixed in the upcoming version. Not sure about VLC via DLNA, 
but we do have VLC as a transcoding engine in the next version too. Feel free 
to check out our beta builds

Original comment by subjunk on 11 Apr 2013 at 9:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi Subjunk,

Thanks for fixing WMP detection.
The VLC issue is not related to transcoding.
In VLC Media Player, the playlist has Local Network/Universal Plug'n'Play 
option.
But Universal Media Server doesn't get listed.
It allows us to browse files available on DLNA server basically.
I have attached a screenshot of it as well.

Original comment by ashishpi...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 4:14

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Strange that it doesn't show up, since UMS accepts all connections whether it 
recognises them or not. Do any other media servers work with VLC?

Original comment by subjunk on 12 Apr 2013 at 4:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yes, quite strange indeed.
I am able to browse and play files shared using Windows Media Player.
I haven't tested this with other DLNA servers though except UMS and WMP Sharing.
Just some more info.
UMS does detect it.
The user agent search string is "Portable SDK for UPnP devices"

Original comment by ashishpi...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 4:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hmm I just tested it myself and VLC does list UMS, maybe it's something they 
fixed in 2.0.6, have you updated to that?
However if I click UMS in VLC, VLC goes into a loop and crashes

Original comment by subjunk on 12 Apr 2013 at 5:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I just tested on 2.0.6
I noticed that UMS appears in the list for a while and disappears.
Also it doesn't show UMS as a folder, so we can't browse through it.
Maybe it needs some different renderer file.

Original comment by ashishpi...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 5:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Still won't work for me.

I have UMS 3.0.0a5 on Mac (Mountain Lion) and WMP12/VLC2.0.8 on Win7.

UMS just doesn't show up on either of them, also it doesn't seem to recognize 
either of them in the network.
There are no renderers found and it doesn't matter in which order I start them.

Also on rare occasion WMP does show up in UMS, but I can't find a trigger for 
that. Besides this, even when UMS recognizes WMP, it doesn't show up in WMP, so 
I got no advantage of it :)

Original comment by Mihawk.90@googlemail.com on 1 Oct 2013 at 3:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
With my LG TV UMS works great, on my laptop with WMP UMS shows up but it's 
empty, no videos, no music, no pictures.

UMS 3.0.0 a5, Windows 7 home premium 64bit SP1, windows media player 
12.0.7601.17514

Original comment by sh...@outlook.com on 8 Oct 2013 at 9:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
We are switching over to GitHub for our issue tracking.
Future updates to this issue will be at the following link:
https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer/UniversalMediaServer/issues/172

Original comment by subjunk on 26 Nov 2013 at 3:39