[mythtv-users] UPnP Client?

[Mark Kendall]

2009/9/14 Darrin Smith <mtv at aperature.org>:
> I've been playing with the idea of using universal plug and play, but I
> can't seem to find a decent linux client anywhere.  Part of what I find
> confusing is that mythfrontend emits messages indicating that there may be
> an embedded UPnP client in the program, but the functionality doesn't seem
> to be exposed to the end user (in 0.21-fixes).

Mythfrontend only has the beginnings of a UPnP media renderer. It
currently does nothing more than advertise itself (and implements one
non-standard service). I do intend to implement media renderer support
at some point in the next few months but it requires some fairly low
level changes to the frontend if it is to be done well.

> I tried djmount, but was very unimpressed with it's performance and impact
> on the machine and the network.  I have a dual core 3GHz machine and
> accessing a UPnP resource on the network just barely crawls.  I'm running a
> gigabit full duplex network, so bandwidth shouldn't be an issue.  For the
> server side of it, I'm using PlayOn.
>
> So - how are you doing it?  In the archives I see messages saying how great
> this works, but I can't seem to determine how any of you managed to get it
> set up.  The most recent information online that I could find is over a year
> old and there doesn't appear to have been any development in djmount in a
> long time.  There must be some new information or new developments that have
> occurred since then.

MythTV UPnP support is currently focused around the UPnP media server
that is part of mythbackend i.e. people are using it to serve up their
mythtv content to other media players such as PS3s. There is no
special configuration required to get this up and running - for the
most part it just works.

regards

Mark