[mythtv-users] UPnP playback good but duration info is missing

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 07/12/2020 11:30, John Pilkington wrote:
> Hi:  For a long time I have tended to use UPnP playback when I just want 
> to watch a recording at its original speed from beginning to end;  I 
> still see a slight wobble in pan shots with the standard frontend using 
> nVidia decoding, and while the leanfront now gives excellent playback 
> and more flexible control it can still fail unexpectedly in mid-flow if 
> the recording was less than perfect.
> 
> The main problem I have with UPnP on my 5+ year old Panasonic TV is that 
> duration info isn't being used.  It isn't displayed in the selection 
> menu and skipping forward or back is difficult to control.
> 
> UPnP playback from the twonky server in my NAS doesn't have this 
> problem, and I think it may be a regression (in current master) from 
> what MythTV used to do.
> 

I didn't think we had yet done any upnp changes in master vs fixes/31

Having said that, we are currently doing some considerable surgery on
the backend in the area of the webserver & upnp, so we will have to
revisit how the upnp side works with various devices

Regards
Stuart


> I know that UPnP playback has always been a difficult topic, because TV 
> manufacturers have applied their own tweaks, but it would be good to get 
> this sorted.  Do other people see this problem?
> 
> John P
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