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I'm running the deafualt installation of mediatomb on my DNS-323 (funpack 0.5) but when I click on a movie file in the web UI it starts downloading instead of streaming. I can't watch it until the whole file is downloaded which is kind of meaningless. On my client side I use Mac OSX 10.6.3 and VLC 1.1.0 (64bit). Does anyone have any guesses of what is wrong?
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Try something along one of the following:
1) Your browser may need to be "taught" to launch the VLC application when accessing the types of media files you are accessing, rather than the "default" action of downloading. Most browsers have settings that allow you to associate an application, VLC in this case, with files of a certain type.
2) You could try accessing the DNS-323 as a network share so that you can see the files in the Mac Finder. This would dispense with the web browser and the mediatomb UI completely. You would just use vlc to open the media files as if they were on your local machine.
3) Mediatomb is a DLNA server and vlc may be able to connect to MT as a DLNA client. So, you would just start up the vlc app and look for an option (probably in the File menu) to locate and attach to a DLNA server source. From there, you would pick what you want to play.
I'm not an expert on any of these things and am not currently near my hardware to try any of this out. So, these are just ideas to try and are probably of the "better than nothing" quality.
Good luck and be sure to post back anything that you get working.
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A follow-up to number (3) above:
The current (1.1.0) version of VLC for Windows does NOT have uPnP support, so it won't do the service discovery and find the files on the MT server.
But I was able to copy the link location from the MT GUI page of a file I wanted to view and then paste it into the VLC Media->Open Network Stream dialog. That does start streaming into VLC. You can add these URL's to a VLC playlist.
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