Vlc continues not to see upnp media servers

Bug #2025562 reported by Paul W
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Bug Description

~$ vlc -v
VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
[00005643a1937b20] main services discovery error: no suitable services discovery module
[00005643a1892550] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[00005643a192b240] main playlist: playlist is empty

and clicking on Upnp in playlist window gives

00007fcee86dc750] upnp services discovery: Initializing libupnp on 'default' interface
[00007fcee86dc750] upnp services discovery error: Initialization failed: UPNP_E_SOCKET_BIND
[00007fcee86dc750] main services discovery error: no suitable services discovery module

In short no upnp servers showing in playlist window of VLC. This bug seems to have existed over the years

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: vlc 3.0.18-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jul 2 12:35:46 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-08 (2093 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-03 (89 days ago)

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