[mythtv-users] uPNP Problems

Johnny Russ jruss at mit.edu
Wed Nov 5 03:23:33 UTC 2008


>
>
> > If you're trying to use MythTV as a UPnP server, give up. Launch
> > mythbackend with --no-upnp (or something like that, I forgot) and
> > install a different UPnP server instead. I use Mediatomb. Not perfect
> > either, but much better.
> >
> >
> I find Upnp work's quite well on my mixed system (Ubuntu,WinXp).
> I can sit at my computer and play recordings all day without a single
> glitch.. I really didn't have to do anything special to get it
> running..It just worked...
>

I also have had no problems with the UPnP server. It has always worked with
no setup or intervention on my part. In fact over a slow wireless link, I
frequently could only get reliable playback via UPnP as the standard mythtv
protocol seemed to add just enough overhead to cause skipping.
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