[mythtv-users] upnp pictures of screens

[Craig G.]

I have the DSM-520 and it feels like an orphaned D-Link product.   Which is 
not surprising as the internals are not made by D-Link themselves.    In a 
rough sense the DSM-520 works "ok" with mythtv, but it is VERY sensitive to 
encoding.  By sensitive I mean if you try to playback a MPEG-TS stream it 
tends to lock up if any of the frames are missing or corrupted.   This means 
if I run the content I record through mythtranscode to clean it up, then it 
plays ok with the DSM-520.   Have better luck with MPEG-PS files.   Right 
now if I record something from my HDHomerun have to transcode it to cleanup 
the MPEG stream before I can try to display it on my DSM-520, which is very 
inconvenient.   (streams play fine in mythtv, mplayer or even windows.  They 
just cause the DSM-520 to lock up hard.   The fact that there hasn't been a 
firmware update in over 8 months, and their have been no moves/attempts by 
D-Link to fix many of the bugs and deficiencies in the devices firmware.  I 
wouldn't recommend it.   If looking for a UPNP thin player, would 
recommended researching which was have the best support from the 
manufacturer and the most frequent updates.   As the support from D-link has 
been almost non-existent for their devices.

Craig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stuart" <stuart at xnet.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] upnp pictures of screens




Allan Wilson wrote:
> Can anyone take pictures of what it looks like using myth on their upnp
> devices. I am thinking about getting either the D-Link DSM-520
> <http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=438> or the I-O DATA
> LinkPlayer2
> <http://www.iodata.com/products/products.php?cat=HNP&sc=AVEL&ts=2&tsc=11&sc=AVEL&pId=AVLP2%2FDVDLA>
> but I was wondering what it actually looks like when you are using it.
> You can email me off list if you need to attach pictures and I will try
> to post them to the Article on the wiki. Also if you are using it with
> hidef how is that going? Thanks
>
> Allan

FYI, you should be able to start finding client reports here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/UPnPClientInfo
...if you are using a client not listed, join in and create a page to
let us know how it works!


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