topic Re: VLC and network share in Android TV

VLC and network share

sukmudha7 — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:00:25 GMT

All,

I have a Windows 2012 server which is storing all my movies etc.. on a shared drive which is part of a domain i.e. domain.

Now when I try to access the share via the VLC TV app I am asked to enter the username and password, but not matter what format i enter I am unable to connect to the share.

I have tried

domain;user

domain\user

domain/user

/user

\user

The share is working fine when I try it from another computer.

Can anyone assisit?

Thanks

Re: VLC and network share

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 20:50:45 GMT

Hi there

Leaving VLC aside for the time being, are you able to test this via KODI instead?

Cheers

Re: VLC and network share

sukmudha7 — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:11:48 GMT

Hi,

Yes, KODI is able to see my network share and I can browse my video files but the playback is terrible. Videos taken on my iPhone take a while to load and play back is very choppy. I also have a Vu Solo2 Linux box which has the same drive mapped and plays all my videos fine accept for 4k ones. I was hoping to use VLC to playback my 4k vidoes.

Any ideas?

Re: VLC and network share

sukmudha7 — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 13:47:45 GMT

Hi again,

I installed ES File Explorer and browsed to my file share. When selecting my .mp4 I was given the option of using VLC player. The video didn't play back smoothly, it kept on pausing. How can I stop this pausing and also any ideas how to use VLC directly with my network share?

Thanks

Re: VLC and network share

sukmudha7 — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 13:04:07 GMT

Still, can't login to my share using VLC. Can anyone hep?

Thanks

Re: VLC and network share

RillDeverill — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:05:30 GMT

I am having similar problems 4K video taken with my DSLR, won't playback smoothly keeps buffering. Upon investigation, the network traffic is limited to 8MB/s so further investigation suggests that the wired network connection is on 100Mbps so, in theory, I should get 10MB/s.

I am wondering if I can get a Gigabit USB network adaptor that would work increasing the available bandwidth?

That might be your problem as well. The TV can play the file properly over a USB hard drive.

Tom

Re: VLC and network share

rooobb — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:00:53 GMT

In any case , regarding the sharing problem, the right way to proceed (we are talking about TVs not really computer) is to share multimedia via the DLNA protocol. Don't know if there is any restriction on Windows server compared to Windows, but you should be able to use the feature embedded in Windows (Windows Media Player) or install a dedicated DLNA server like serviio www.serviio.org

Re: VLC and network share

Mick_J — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:06:56 GMT

VLC seems to be somewhat of a diminishing app these days. The share login does seem somewhat picky.

What you could do if comfortable with it is to turn off the need for users in your home network needing to login for access to the public folders. This can be done by going to the Network and Sharing Center program in the Control Panel or via a right click on the network icon in the System Tray. In the Network and Sharing Center click on Change Advanced Sharing Options. In the Home and Work section, untick Password Protected Sharing and save changes. See if that helps.

Re: VLC and network share

sukmudha7 — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:01:26 GMT

Hi,

I am running a 1GB network and when I play videos through my VU+ Solo2 Linux box (http://vuplus.com/sub/sub0105.php) everything works fine. This box cannot play 4k so I wanted to use VLC. With my network setup, I won't be able to let everyone have access to this share. KODI does connect fine and when you select to playback using VLC media player it works but lots of buffering and freezes. I have tried Archos player and same issue. My VU+ Solo2 box is using Samba and the VLC app on my TV can see that drive and play videos stored on the Solo2.

I think VLC is looking is expecting the username and password in a for a specific format.

I will post a message in the VLC forum and see what I can find out.

Re: VLC and network share

aistis — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:06:45 GMT

Well, I've tried everything. My initial thoughts after failing to play anything above ~60Mbps of bitrate was the same - Sony saved 5 cents and included a *****ty 100Mbps NIC. So I went and bought a Wifi router supporting 802.11AC, which can push good 800Mbps. TV supports this, however nothing really changed - same buffering issues, only the basic, up to 30Mbps of bitrate, 4K files are rendered properly over the network.

My bet - the two corw ARM CPU is just too slow to process the network stream. Which is a shame and I will probably return the 3000€ TV back for this reason, unless I find a way to have some NAS over USB working

Re: VLC and network share

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:38:53 GMT

Hi there

Unfortunately this is a known issue (to me) as I conducted some of my own tests at the begining of this year (2016) - I submitted feedback to a department within Sony in early April - but unfortunately the 10/100Mbps NIC is the case for these TVs. Hopefully 2017 and beyond has the 10/100/1000Mbps NIC - but nothing can be done for 2016 and earlier TVs.

Re: VLC and network share

aistis — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:42:45 GMT

Unfortunately, high performance NIC doesn't seem to be able to solve this, as demonstrated with wifi, which is able to push almost 1Gbps. They will also need to put a higher performance CPU/chipset to cope with those packets.

Re: VLC and network share

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 18:16:59 GMT

One would think (hope!) that Sony Engineers would also come to that conclusion too.

But then again, thinking back, the same tests I did was successful via USB drive....

Re: VLC and network share

aistis — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 18:50:52 GMT

If USB works, then not all is lost. Alternative theory was that VLC and similar are not using full hardware decoding capabilities. Oh well, back to USB then...

Re: VLC and network share

sukmudha7 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:52:02 GMT

Hi all,

I recently took a whole load of 4k vidoes using my Sony RX100 IV camera and copied the .mp4 over to my windows server. No matter what application I use e.g. KODI, VLC the 4k vidoes simply will not play smoothly over my 1GB network using Cat 5e cable to the TV. Is a USB SSD drive my only option left to play these 4k 100m100p mp4 files?

When using Netflix 4k plays fine so I am confused in why I am having these problems. Is there an official UK Sony support centre I can log a ticket with?

thanks

Re: VLC and network share

sukmudha7 — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:18:36 GMT

Hi again,

In the end I decided to buy a WeTek Play2 Andriod box and this little thing solved all my problems. I can connect to my Windows share and play all my 4k videos H265 & H264 plus lots of other codecs, KODI 17.1 works pefectly and can also play all my 4k videos. Everything just works and this little box cost £100.

I have setup KODI 17.1 on my WeTek Play2 and my Sony XD93 £2000 TV and KODI on my TV is absolutely terrible!! Constantly buffering, freezing and just not something you would expect.

I dont know what Sony are thinking by engineering a TV like this. For the additional £100 I am very happy now and everything is working.

Thanks

Re: VLC and network share

Moggsterlondon — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:45:53 GMT

Go into settings and clear data then log in again with just username and password. Worked for me