This is like pulling teeth and somewhat confusing.
There are people here trying to help you, but you seem to be studiously ignoring their posts and/or not responding to them.....
Thank you Trev. It does seem like that. I began to wonder whether it was a wind-up.
I have received a lot of immensely kind and patient help here on this forum, assisting me to navigate the jungle of things I don't understand and arrive at the sunlit uplands of clarity and a Humax HDR that works wonderfully. I am very grateful for all this help. So, in return, I would like to help others here, where I can, with the little crumbs of knowledge I have grasped.
But it works best when there is a comprehensible to and fro of advice and feedback and we are not achieving that on this one.
DelftBlue has given you some steps to perform at post #81 .... but you have completely ignored his suggestions, or at least not come back to report on your progress....
Thought I ought to say that it's actually
her suggestions
(Although, of course, in this context, gender is irrelevant
)
Your problem can almost certainly be resolved but you must help us help you by answering the direct questions that people ask you
A fundamental one:
Does the file have the green 'Dec' icon or not? Yes or No?
If you want to play a file via Samba on a PC with VLC media player, it must have a 'Dec' icon.
The Wiki has lots of info on this and how to achieve it.
I have no idea what a "samba video icon" is.
BH: I think this is in Windows XP. The screenpage for 'My Network Places' shows the connections made with Samba and different views are possible, via the 'View' menu.
I have the 'Details' setting so the items appear as full text in lines. However if the other display options are chosen - Thumnails, Tiles or Icons - then there would be a 'samba video icon'.
In network devices ,I can't now click on the humax samba video icon. I get message I don't have permission or may not be available.
I get this message too sometimes.
Possible causes:
a) The Humax HDR is off, powered down, in stand-by mode. So switch HDR on again to blue ring on front.
b) The network cables/devices are unplugged. Double-check connections.
c) The router has got muddled somehow. Reboot router.
d) Problems with IP addresses. I prefer to set static IP addresses for all HDRs and connected devices (addresses with widely differing end numbers, all above 50 so there is no risk of collisions with anything automatically allocated by DHCP)
You can set a static address for the Humax HDR via remote control MENU button >System >Internet Setting >Configure LAN >Manual.
The numbers depend on your set-up and router.
But a typical example would be something like:
IP Adress: 192.168.1.99
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway Address: 192.168.1.1
DNS Address: 192.168.1.1
HTH