[mythtv-users] DLNA support in mythtv

[Raymond Wagner]

Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> I have a Sony XBR tv with DLNA support.  I would like to use it as a 
> front end to MythTV, but can't figure out the details.
>  
> It looks to me that Mythtv supports uPnP (partial), but not DLNA.  Is 
> this right?  Any plans to change this?
DLNA offers a subset of the capability of UPnP AV, and as such any UPnP 
server *should* work with a DLNA client.  The only thing it really takes 
to get UPnP/DLNA working is to make sure your network is configured 
properly.  All devices must be on the same subnet, with the same 
broadcast address.  There's not much else you can do, since MythTV has 
no settings for it, except for enabled or disabled.  Aside from that, 
MythTV does not support on-the-fly transcoding, so you are limited to 
watching content that your playback device can decode directly.