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Together, these three pieces create a powerful way to manage and access your entertainment and media files. Lastly, and most recently, Plex is now also a platform that can be used to access, aggregate, and search all of your subscribed streaming services (more on this below).

Plex is actually three things: It’s free media server software that you run on a PC, Mac, or NAS drive in your home, and it’s also a vast set of free client apps that let you access the media server’s contents from devices like smart TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, gaming consoles, phones, tablets, and way more. Fitbit Versa 3įor Plex Media Server: PC, Mac, Linux, or FreeBSD computer, Nvidia Shield or Shield TV Netgear Nighthawk router, or supported NASįor Plex Client Player: Any supported streaming device Note: It can take some time for VLC to discover and list all the folders and sub-folders from your UPnP and DLNA servers.

You will be playing media from your network in some time.

Browse through them and right click on them to Play, Stream or Add to Playlist.

You’ll see a list of files or streaming networks listed on the left.

On the left under Local Network, click on Universal Plug’n’Play.

Here’s how you access media from UPnP or DLNA using VLC: It’s like a private network for audio and video files. There should be another device sharing media files using this standard or protocol. If you have VLC on your computer, you will be accessing the files available via UPnP as well as DLNA. All of them should be connected to the same network or Wi-Fi. It’s like sharing the media content that you have on your computer or phone to other devices without the need to copy and move files.

You can see televisions make use of this feature to access videos from your laptops and other devices supporting the standard. UPnP and DLNA allow you to stream content over your local network. The option is available in the View > Playlist section of the media player. VLC can easily access media from UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) as well as DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance).