[mythtvnz] DNLA/UPnP server

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:09:48 +1300, you wrote:

>
>> Does anyone have any idea how to
>> get MythTV to become a UPnP/DLNA server?
>
>It is automatic these days as long as you did not use 127.0.0.1 as the 
>backend address. If you did use 127.0.0.1 the all "external" networking 
>functionality (including DLNA) is disabled.
>And you can't just change to the real address either, as that value is stored 
>in the database.
>I'm sure there is a procedure to do it though.
>

Thank you, that looks to be my problem.  During install, there is a
question about using external access, and I always answer yes to that,
but it insists on setting things up as 127.0.0.1 anyway, so that is
what I have at the moment.  So now I have to find out how to change
the IP address - last time I attempted it, I got nowhere.  This time I
know more about SQL so I should be able to track down all the places
where 127.0.0.1 is currently used.

>>   Or is there some other
>> software that works better than MythTV?
>Nope, there are some good DLNA servers out there but they have a major issue.
>They use inotify to find out changes to the file system, usually with a 3 
>minute delay. Which means that after 3 minutes of a file showing up it is 
>listed in DLNA.
>
>The problem with that is that all new MythTV recordings show up as 3 minutes 
>long, and the PS3 for example will just stop playing the file after 3 minutes.
>
>PS: I have tried
>- PMS - Good for transcoding
>- Coherence - abysmal memory utilisation (1.3Gb of memory on my server)
>- minidlna - pure DLNA file server, brilliant if you don't need transcoding.
>   (12Mb memory utilisation)