[mythtv-users] UPnP and Video Metadata

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 23:35:48 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Charles Waddell <cdwaddell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> After a couple years away from MythTV, I got back into it this week, and was
>>> wondering if my setup is wrong or if this is by design. I am running the
>>> latest MythTV release on Ubuntu 9.10 with a PS3 UPnP as a streaming client
>>> in my living room. Should the UPnP menu break down into Title, Director,
>>> etc... if metadata has been imported for all of my media. Currently, I only
>>> get videoroot with the folder structure and the filenames for the videos.
>>>
>>> I tried searching the list, and apologise if I missed a reply to a similar
>>> question in the past, but I have been off of the mailing list for a while.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> CD Waddell
>>
>> The uPnP server does its own scan, and doesn't use the DB metadata at
>> all, so what you see is accurate.
>
> depending on your definition of 'accurate'. Perhaps you mean 'expected
> in the current implementation' :)
>
> Seems strange to let myth gather all this metadata and then not have
> upnp use it. But some of the recent posts lead me to believe that upnp
> is still both a black art in general [1] and a work in progress for
> mythtv.
>
> [1] in that there seem to be many conflicting and varying
> implementations of the 'standard'.

Nobody is really working on uPnP in general in Myth.  Lots of things
"seem strange" when there's nobody willing or able to do the work,
when the real explanation is not strange at all.

Robert


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