[mythtv-users] UPnP Client?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:21:35 +1200
Nick Rout wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:22:02 +0100
> Jan Oonk wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I searched on the mythtv website and the mailinglist but all I can find is postings about upnp server.
> > 
> > I want to build a HTPC with Linux. This will be located near my TV and stereo down stairs. In another room I have a Media Server installed (TwonkyMedia) on my NSLU2. The HTPC must be able to do PVR _and_ be able to stream my music, pictures, video from my MediaServer(NSLU2) to my MythTV box. I know MythTV can do PVR :) but the other is that possible?
> > 
> > Or are their better ways to do what I want?
> >  
> > greetings Jan
> 
> A bit late to the conversation but...
> 
> If you want to make your myth box into a uPNP client for video you can
> do the following. I suspect you can do the music and photos too, but i
> have not bothered with that.
> 
> 1. install twonkymedia on the slug - oops you have that already.
> 
> 2. install djmount on your myth box http://djmount.sourceforge.net/
> 
> djmount will search for uPNP servers on your lan and mount them all in
> virtual directories under the mount point you give it. 
> 
> 3. point djmount to a subdirectory of the place where you store your
> mythvideo video files. For example if you store your mythvideo files
> under /mnt/videos you want to start djmount with something like 
> 
> djmount /mnt/videos/upnp  (having made the dir /mnt/videos/upnp
> 
> 4. The video files now appear in your file system under /mnt/videos/upnp
> as playlist files - I cannot remember the extension, but you may need to
> add the extension to the list of files that mythvideo recognises
> (somewhere in setup). You also need to customise the mplayer command to
> treat the file as a playlist, rather than the video file itself. In
> other words the player command should look like this:
> 
> mplayer (your normal options) -playlist %s
> 
> 5. Depending how you have mythvideo set up (ie whether or not it
> automatically scans your video directory ) you may then need to go into
> mythvideo's setup to generate a rescan of all the files. This might take
> a while over the network.
> 
> The other option of course is to simply nfs or cifs mount the video
> directory of your slug to a subdirectory of /mnt/videos. Then you don't
> need step 4, the files just appear as if on the local drive, but when
> you play them they come over the network via nfs or cifs. (cifs is the
> samba protocol, I believe it is more capable than smbfs but I can't
> remember what gave me that impression)
> 
> 

Sorry I should mention that I haven't got a slug, I used twonkymedia on
a PC. However provided the slug has sufficient IO bandwidth to drag
video off the hard drive (over usb2) and out onto the ethernet, it
shouldn't be a problem.


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