Hello Paul,
I tried to use several Windows 8 PC's with an installed VLC as an DLNA player. In mezzmo I added the IP's of my Windows machines and chosed the VLC profile to them:
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In VLC I only see the Mezzmo Servername (I named it Mediathek), but no audio or video playlists/files are shown:
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