[myth-ie] STB project [was Re: music]

[Glen Gray]

That's somewhat promising for me. I've been planning on building a  
bling'ed up Set Top Box based on a Via/Intel thin-client. This is  
based on one I've made for work which uses EFL for the fullscreen gui  
and VLC for media playback.

In musing this project, I'd intended on enabling UPnP on my MythTV  
server with the aim of providing either access to recorded TV and  
media files (and possibly liveTV) from the combined backend/frontend  
down stairs or via some sort of customised RTSP server setup running  
in the background on the mythbox. For networking, I doubt that 802.11G  
would be much use, but I think some of the newer Home A/V stuff could  
work well.


On 3 Jan 2008, at 18:20, Seán O Sullivan wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:33:06 +0000
> jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason) wrote:
>
>>
>> Michael Thompson writes:
>>> mediatomb is a nice bit of software to export your music collection
>>> to other devices, like a PS3 for instance. Not sure of any UPNP-AV
>>> media renderer's that run in MythTV or even on Linux though.
>>
>> MythTV 0.20 claims to be a uPnP server -- I think.   I don't know for
>> sure, since I have never been able to get uPnP (or DAAP for that
>> matter) interoperating with a variety of devices and servers.  I get
>> the feeling it's an awful piece of crap fake-"standard".
>
> Using MythTV 0.21 (CVS - 14921).
> uPnP works quite well (for videos) - though doesn't show the directory
> structure - so end up with a tonne of completely unsorted/random  
> videos.
> I believe there are some more uPnP improvements on newer releases.
>
> I find quickest/easiest method for music via uPnP is ushare (which is
> still lacking good video support (shows folders etc as expected, won't
> actually play videos, for me at least).
>
> Seán
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