UPnP discovery is very slow

Bug #977277 reported by EricDHH
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VLC media player
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vlc (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

12.04b2 amd64.
Since years i use vlc for playing music from my minidlna nas (alt-f7). VLC has take around 5 minutes from first click on my nas symbol in the universal plugnplay list to first song and tree. Now with ubuntu 12.04b2 the vlc is doing 15 minutes of some meditation and net transfers, then it grey'ed out for some more minutes before the first song comes up.

I found this http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4437 and it is the best description for this problem. There ist nothing else with this slowness. I use the android upnp-player app, radios from philips, reciva and noxon. All these devices needs around 30 - 45 seconds to the folders in my nas.

VLC ist2.0.1 Twoflower

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: vlc 2.0.1-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 72ffaca291c05635776d4a13f9e644e4
CheckboxSystem: 32980ee028b29311fef8e195a759b031
Date: Mon Apr 9 16:59:58 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de_DE.UTF8:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-31 (9 days ago)

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EricDHH (ericdhh) wrote :
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EricDHH (ericdhh) wrote :

AddOn: NAS and PC are connected in 1000MBps Fullduplex with lan, parallel installed win-7 with msmediaplayer discovers in30 - 45 seconds too.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

UPnP in VLC has always been a problem. It will remain a problem until someone takes the ball.

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EricDHH (ericdhh) wrote :

That's bad for ubuntu as multimedia os, within 11.10 totem coherence was suspended so there are no other choices. Coherence was massive faster than vlc. UPNP is growing very fast, we need a good software for this.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

VLC fetching is just more thorough in newer version. Being slower is thus not really a bug. Of course, VLC should not fetch everything as it does, but that is not a regression from Ubuntu 11.10. It has been like that ever since VLC has had UPnP.

Note that VideoLAN has put up a bounty to fix this issue since then. But still nobody took it up. Don't hold your breath...

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - UPNP discovery 3 times slower than in ubuntu 11.10
+ UPnP discovery is very slow
Changed in vlc:
status: Unknown → New
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ddekreon (drew-dekreon) wrote :

Comment #5 is incorrect. VLC Bug #4437 has been active for over two years with this issue.
Initial server discovery takes five minutes +, title population can take hours.

Trying using XMBC instead. Use Video/Add files, select uPNP. The servers appear in seconds , the list just as quickly.

Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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EricDHH (ericdhh) wrote :

Ubuntu 15.04 amd64
VLC Version is: 2.2.0

Opening a upnp device runs into a deep freeze, vlc turns grey and crashes seconds later.

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berend (berenddeboer) wrote :

Ubuntu 15.10, vlc 2.2.1 same thing. vlc will eventually complete, but will take a long time.

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berend (berenddeboer) wrote :

But should have added that this should be fixed in vlc 3.0.0 according to the vlc bug list.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu1

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vlc (3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Apply patch from LocutusOfBorg to fix the FTBFS.

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:18:42 -0600

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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