[mythtv-users] Trouble shooting UPnP

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> Correction. Turns out UPnP is working just fine. I'd forgotten
> that the time I saw the server present on the network was when
> working under Vista (a rare occurrence thankfully). I just booted
> up Vista a minute ago, and the server is showing, plus I can
> play some of my recordings (any that I've removed the ads from
> - presumably the ones that are PS streams as opposed to TS
> streams).
>
> So the problem is that the TV cannot detect the server. I
> guess that might be because I have it connected to the
> network through a wireless ethernet transceiver. I'll see
> if I can find a huge length of cat5 to try a direct wired
> connection.

The mythtv dlna/upnp server does not seem to work in all cases. There
are alternatives though and many of them are discussed in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1185619