[mythtvnz] DNLA/UPnP server

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:05:40 +1300, you wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:46:29 +1300, you wrote:
>
>
>>
>>>I too am interested, could you post an update showing how you 
>>>(hopefully) achieved it?
>>
>>Changing the MythTV box to use its external IP address worked fine.  I
>>just changed the fields in the MythTV Backend Setup to the correct IP
>>address, and for good measure also made the Frontend use the same
>>external IP address for accessing the MySQL database.  It all worked
>>without any problems, unlike the last time I tried it with Ubuntu 8.04
>>and MythTV 0.21.  So maybe something there has been fixed in 0.22 so
>>it all just works.  upnp-inspector now says the MythTV box is a UPnP
>>server.  But the Sony TV does not yet see it as a server, although it
>>does see my Vista WMP UPnP server and so far I have been able to get
>>it to display some stored photos from there.  I have to experiment
>>more with it all, but Mum wants to use her TV now, so it will have to
>>wait for tomorrow.
>
>I was unable to get the Sony KDL-32V5500 TV to see the MythTV UPnP
>server, so after some googling I tried minidlna:
>
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/
>
>With that, I can get the TV to play the MPEG2 recordings from the
>PVR-500 card (Sky programs), but the H.264 FreeviewHD programs do not
>work so far.  And of course, the raw filenames that minidlna serves up
>are pretty useless for working out which program is which, so ideally
>once I get minidlna working, I would want to port that code to the
>MythTV UPnP server.

OK, I have now got a little further with this.  I used an SQL UPDATE
to change the data in the minidlna database to something suggested by
the author, and that made the Sony TV see the FreeviewHD files.  But
unfortunately it will not play them.  To confirm that, I put a small
Prime SD recording on a USB stick and plugged that into the Sony TV
and it would still not play the file.  So now I need to find out what
format H.264 files it will play, and see if it is just a case of
changing the container format, or something more difficult that would
need full transcoding.