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How do I setup MP2 as an UPnP server?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1258825" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p>In General an UPnP (or DLNA) Chain contains three different things. </p><p></p><p>1. The Server, this holds the media and transfers them to the target player.</p><p>2. The Controller, this has all the navigation stuff on it. Normally what you may call a player, but that's not exact.</p><p>3. The Renderer, this is the device that finally displays the video or plays the audio. </p><p></p><p>2 and 3 are often combined into one tool like e.g. VLC player or Bubble UPnP or even Windows MediaPlayer or similar. An AVR with network connection most likely can navigate by itself to play the music you want. So it also is a controller and renderer combined. But more often you use a better tool with nicer GUI like e.g. BubbleUPnP as controller. You browse the media and start (stop, pause, ff, réw,... ) the playback on your phone and indeed it is played on your AVR and not your mobile device.</p><p></p><p>What you see is "MediaPortal UPnP <strong>Renderer</strong>", not UPnP Server as you may think. This means, MediaPortal can be used as a renderer, a target for UPnP Playback. So you can play videos stored on a NAS with a running DLNA server on it, controlled with your phone and BubbleUPnP and play the video on your big TV powered by MediaPortal2 client. Opposite to many other DLNA renderer MP2 client can not act as a DLNA controller, only as a renderer.</p><p></p><p>A MediaPortal 2 DLNA server to have access to all your media library and even LiveTV is a work in progress and probably will be included into the next "big" release (means MP 2.3). No promises as this is not an easy task to do... But the team is working on this right now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1258825, member: 109222"] Hi. In General an UPnP (or DLNA) Chain contains three different things. 1. The Server, this holds the media and transfers them to the target player. 2. The Controller, this has all the navigation stuff on it. Normally what you may call a player, but that's not exact. 3. The Renderer, this is the device that finally displays the video or plays the audio. 2 and 3 are often combined into one tool like e.g. VLC player or Bubble UPnP or even Windows MediaPlayer or similar. An AVR with network connection most likely can navigate by itself to play the music you want. So it also is a controller and renderer combined. But more often you use a better tool with nicer GUI like e.g. BubbleUPnP as controller. You browse the media and start (stop, pause, ff, réw,... ) the playback on your phone and indeed it is played on your AVR and not your mobile device. What you see is "MediaPortal UPnP [B]Renderer[/B]", not UPnP Server as you may think. This means, MediaPortal can be used as a renderer, a target for UPnP Playback. So you can play videos stored on a NAS with a running DLNA server on it, controlled with your phone and BubbleUPnP and play the video on your big TV powered by MediaPortal2 client. Opposite to many other DLNA renderer MP2 client can not act as a DLNA controller, only as a renderer. A MediaPortal 2 DLNA server to have access to all your media library and even LiveTV is a work in progress and probably will be included into the next "big" release (means MP 2.3). No promises as this is not an easy task to do... But the team is working on this right now. [/QUOTE]
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