[mythtv-users] Is anyone using mythtv as a server for the new Internet capable TVs ?

[Eric Smith]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:40 AM, MonkeyPet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Eric Smith <erictsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Boleslaw Ciesielski <
> bolek-mythtv at curl.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >> > I'm in the market to buy a new TV.  I'm contemplating setting up a
> myth
> >> > TV server/system.
> >> >
> >> > Several of the TVs I am looking at appear to support some sort of
> >> > Internet capability.  Ie the Samsung 52LN650.
> >> >
> >> >
> http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/samsung-ln52a650/4505-6482_7-32887597.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
> >> >
> >> > I am wondering if such a TV could connected directly to a mythTV
> backend
> >> > (server), without the need for a local front end PC.  Has anyone tried
> >> > this ?
> >>
> >> myth-0.21-fixes upnp server works out of the box with Pioneer PRO-111FD
> >> TV (which claims to be "DLNA certified").
> >>
> >> The playback is very smooth and there is no deinterlacing issues etc.
> >> (TV handles everything by itself). But a lot of the functionality is
> >> lost (not even fast-forward, at least with HD MPEG2s).
> >>
> >> Bolek
> >
> > I bought a 47ln750 about a month ago.  (Fantastic TV).  I'd been meaning
> to
> > test out the DLNA feature since I got it, but never got around to it.
>  You
> > reminded me to do so.  I was pretty amazed that with zero configuration
> it
> > pulled up a list of all of my recorded tv from the backend.  However,
> each
> > and every file fails with something along the lines of "unknown format".
>  My
> > content is all mpeg2, which should be supported, so I'm not sure where
> the
> > disconnect is.  I'll poke a little longer and see what I find.
>
> I got the SAMSUNG LN46A850. TV is great and extremely thin (over
> priced too).  It was able to find my mp3s/videos on the backend, but
> couldn't play them with the error message unknown format.  I didn't
> spend much time fiddling with it yet.  So now it is hooked up to a mac
> mini running linux that I run the mythtv-frontend on.  I hope to be
> able to fiddle with the DLNA features later on and stream audio and
> video directly to it soon without the PC attached.



I did a little searching on the web and found this post on why the samsung
tvs cannot talk with tversity.
http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10992&p=51899#p50761.  Long
and short of the post is that samsung is expecting a response to*
getcontentFeatures.dlna.org: 1* which tversity is not supplying.  I have not
had a chance to look at the upnp code in myth yet, but suspect we could be
seeing a similar issue.
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