[mythtv-users] Comcast Cable encrypted channels

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/04/2009 01:06 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:52:43 Alan Marchiori wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
>>     
>>> Much less in some cases. The PlayON server will allow you to watch
>>> Netflix on any UPnP/DLNA device, and costs $40, though it's often
>>> available for less.
>>>
>>> The main problem is PlayON is Windows only.
>>>       
>> If you setup a PlayON server wouldn't that make it also possible to
>> watch Netfilx et. al. from a mythfrontend?  Are there any good
>> upnp/dlna clients for linux that would be easy to integrate into
>> mythfrontend (if it is not so already)?
>>     
>
> I've been looking for such a beast, and haven't found one yet. 
>
> I'm certainly open to ideas, so far I've been using a PS3, an Xbox, a D-Link 
> DSM-520 and a Myka. All work quite well, but having it integrated into a Myth 
> frontend would be great.
>
> I notice that when I run the script to optimize the database the first thing 
> it says is, "Net::UPnP::ControlPoint is not installed", which more or less 
> implies that it expects a control point to be there.

The master backend makes itself known through UPnP so that frontends and 
scripts can autodiscover the backend.  However, there's no UPnP client 
support in mythfrontend.  Patches gladly accepted.  :)

Mike