[mythtv-users] DLNA server? Anyone?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Jan 6 16:54:48 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 05:12:16PM -0500, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:31:54PM -0600, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> > Samsung Captivate is an android phone.  The reason I can't play anything
> > (and probably you too) is the video size/type.  I just listed that in case
> > it triggered something for the poster that was having issue with
> > a Samsung TV.  "Allshare" is a Samsung app.  It may be on the TV.  I don't
> > really know.  I know that with it my captivate can 'see' the mythbackend
> > and stream audio, view photos, and presumably video if I had any
> > device-compatible video in myth.
> > 
> 
> I had a Captivate, and upgraded to a Galaxy S II.  Both have the Allshare
> app.  In both cases it is the video and audio encoding that prevent a
> specific file from being viewable on the phone from the Myth backend.
> You can get it to work, but not with native (untranscoded) Myth files, even
> though the phone may play the file fine if you copy it to the phone instead
> of trying to stream it.

   Now that you mention it, I have the same situation with my Captivate. I have
files that play fine locally but not through the MythTV DNLA server and the
client on the phone.



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