[mythtv-users] UPnP and the D-Line DSM-520 Media Player

[Nick Rout]

On 10/9/2006, "Brent Borghese" <mythtv at bborghese.com> wrote:

>I just upgraded my Mythtv to .20 and tested it with my DSM-520, it works
>a lot better than I thought it would.
>
>The Media Player is in no way a replacement for a Myth Frontend but it
>does have a few things that I can not seem to get working or working
>well on a Computer connected to a TV.
>
>1.  Computers have FAN's.  The DSM-520 does not.  This means that
>    it is very quiet, no fan, no hard disk noise.
>2.  A real TV out(HDMI, Component, S-Video, etc..), my video from
>    my TV out on my Frontend looks good, but not great.
>    The DSM-520 looks great.
>3.  I want to do hi-def but my 500Mhz Frontend will not cut it.
>    A new frontend will cost $300 to $400, and I still have problems
>    1 and 2, and Video cards do not have HDMI ports.
>    The DSM-520 says it does HD over its HDMI and Component ports.
>    and its $200.
>
>Right now the UPnP support in Myth looks like it does TV and Music,
>with .20 I could only get recorded TV to play, I updated to the current
>SVN and TV stopped working and music started working. :(
>
>I have been looking in to this UPnP, I think in a year or so all audio
>and video devices will support it.   I think Intel has done something
>right.

I haven't tried .20 yet, but I did enable uPnP on my mythtv box by the
simple expedient of installing twonkyvision, a 15 Euro investment. If
you feed it the right paths it will share your mythvideo videos, your
recorded tv and your music. I was able to access it using a computer
running geexbox, which has client software built in.

uPnP is a very cool technology.

Of course a geexbox will play pretty well any format or codec, because it
is based on mplayer. What codecs/formats will the dsm play? I am
thinking in particular of sharing mythvideo stuff.

uPnP also has specs for a full TV service I think, where the client gets
to choose the channel etc.