[mythtvnz] DNLA/UPnP server

[Jean-Francois Pirus]

> 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.

>   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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