[mythtvnz] DNLA/UPnP server

[douglas]

Stephen Worthington wrote:
> 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)
>>     
>
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I too am interested, could you post an update showing how you 
(hopefully) achieved it?
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