On Wed, 2023-11-29 at 11:02 -0500, Alex wrote:
I contacted silicondust support, and they said any application that supports DNLA will work, but apparently weren't able to tell me how vlc specifically is being spawned. It's definitely launched by HDHomeRun, but I can't find anything in the documentation or any local config files that describes how that's happening.
If you open VLC's media information window (in the tools menu), when it is connected, does it give you any useful info about the stream it's currently playing?
DNLA is a set of (alleged) standards about home network streaming. I might guess it needs mDNS (Avahi/ZeroConf) working for the source device to be automatically found by any player devices. It seemed to be working that way when I used a smart TV to look at files on a NAS with a media server built into it (as to how it found the NAS drives by itself).
My dabbling with this kind of thing is quite out of date. A friend used some Western Digital media players connected to his TV set, many years ago. They'd find his media store (NAS drives, if I remember correctly, though could have been SMB shares), and the WD media players would trawl through the available contents generating an on-screen menu of things to watch.
I could guess that their box has some kind of webserver that you may be able to aim VLC at (using the box's IP address).