[mythtv-users] DLNA server? Anyone?

James Linder jam at tigger.ws
Sat Jan 7 01:34:04 UTC 2012


On 07/01/2012, at 1:53 AM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org 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.

Step 1 of curing my naviete was with a gallaxy 2. OK files not playable (but all the recordings are visible entries)

I tried putting other-format files in the storage directory without avail. How to get the myth upnp server to offer others?

Thanks
James


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