UPnP / DLNA Media Server for MediaPortal 2 (1 Viewer)
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Hi All,
Just picking up on this thread now, you should have a look at PS3 Media Server.
The download is available here.
http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/
And the source files here
https://github.com/ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver
I have MP setup in the living room, and PS3 Media server installed on the same box, and I am successfully streaming to.
PS3, Netgear 500, Med8ter 450, Samsung Smart TV and a Samsung Bluray smarthub.
It’s a great DNLA rendered.
Unfortunately I’m a DBA so what I know about this code is Dangerous!!!
Just picking up on this thread now, you should have a look at PS3 Media Server.
The download is available here.
http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/
And the source files here
https://github.com/ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver
I have MP setup in the living room, and PS3 Media server installed on the same box, and I am successfully streaming to.
PS3, Netgear 500, Med8ter 450, Samsung Smart TV and a Samsung Bluray smarthub.
It’s a great DNLA rendered.
Unfortunately I’m a DBA so what I know about this code is Dangerous!!!
Thats a good Point Tjunas, but I think what the community (me 
) want's is a Server with an central database for all possible clients without using any third party software.
When this Feature will be done, in my opinion Mediaportal2 will make a big step forward and have a huge advantage in usability.
) want's is a Server with an central database for all possible clients without using any third party software.When this Feature will be done, in my opinion Mediaportal2 will make a big step forward and have a huge advantage in usability.
Hi Radical,
Agreed, I believe looking at the code that was written for the PS3 Media server, we should be able to make this a possiblity in MediaPortal, as the DNLA protocols and the software works on all my devices not just the PS3. The PS3 Media Server is Open Source same as MediaPortal.
Agreed, I believe looking at the code that was written for the PS3 Media server, we should be able to make this a possiblity in MediaPortal, as the DNLA protocols and the software works on all my devices not just the PS3. The PS3 Media Server is Open Source same as MediaPortal.
Thanks, Tjunas!
I stumbled upon this a wile ago, but unfortunately it is written in java - so we really could just take ideas from there to implement them in C#. But these "ideas" are as such not very complex - it is clear what is missing for the DLNA part - we just lack the time to implement it...
From my perspective the most difficult thing is to get transcoding working in a DLNA compatible way. We have a wonderful transcoding solution in MPExtended that we could use, but we would have to make sure that the output of the transcoding is DLNA compatible and the restrictions DLNA imposes on the stream formats are very strict (and sometimes make no sense - For music e.g. it is easier because streaming of MP3 is allower for DLNA, although it is quite odd that e.g. streaming of flac files is not supported. For videos it gets really strange because depending on the bitrate of the stream (or the resolution, not sure about that) only certain containers and certain encodign formats are allowed). Besides that it seems that different devices follow a different understanding on the DLNA spec - so we would have to implement some device-specific behavioral changes into our UPnP code, which of course must not affect the UPnP handling between MP2 Server and MP2 Clients. This is what makes it so time consuming in the end...
I stumbled upon this a wile ago, but unfortunately it is written in java - so we really could just take ideas from there to implement them in C#. But these "ideas" are as such not very complex - it is clear what is missing for the DLNA part - we just lack the time to implement it...
From my perspective the most difficult thing is to get transcoding working in a DLNA compatible way. We have a wonderful transcoding solution in MPExtended that we could use, but we would have to make sure that the output of the transcoding is DLNA compatible and the restrictions DLNA imposes on the stream formats are very strict (and sometimes make no sense - For music e.g. it is easier because streaming of MP3 is allower for DLNA, although it is quite odd that e.g. streaming of flac files is not supported. For videos it gets really strange because depending on the bitrate of the stream (or the resolution, not sure about that) only certain containers and certain encodign formats are allowed). Besides that it seems that different devices follow a different understanding on the DLNA spec - so we would have to implement some device-specific behavioral changes into our UPnP code, which of course must not affect the UPnP handling between MP2 Server and MP2 Clients. This is what makes it so time consuming in the end...
Playback of .mkv is working fine here on my LG 42LM660S and simpleDLNA! LG Player doesn'T support .pgs subs and switching audio streams over DLNA, so i can not test!
Are you sure your TV can mkv? WMP transcodes the file to a container / fileformat that your TV understands, simpleDLNA does not do this. But it should be possible by using ffmpeg to transcode the video like MPExtended does.