Skip to content

UPnP recursively fetches all content on discovery.

When VLC connects to UPnP device, in my case llink's upnp implementation, it fetches ALL media. Essentially a recursive list.

With ~10,000 files and folders, the initial scan takes about 15 minutes, creating an unreasonable load on the UPNP server.

The majority of UPNP clients and players treat UPNP as a virtual filesystem, and only show the root container containers, and items.

The current implementation in VLC is unrealistic and unreasonable. Please consider a more network friendly approach.

To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information