UPnP / DLNA Media Server for MediaPortal 2 (1 Viewer)

[morpheus_xx]

Yes, I've added the "if (dlnaProtocolInfo == null) return;" statement, because you get a NRE later in the .ToString() call. Have to check this more in detail. Some former issues happened, because the DlnaAspect was null, so maybe this is not needed. Or I should not return, but only skip the ProtocolInfo...

 

[FreakyJ]

And in the resource accessor are even more faults... i need to attach a debugger, but i already found out that it hangs right after the first log line. The strange thing is that no exception gets triggered... firfox just says that the connection was reset. There is just one place where the code return false. But we don't get even there. This is also wrong in ny opinion. We should there also throw an exception like we do it in the rest of the code

 

[Valk]

If you're working on UPnP it's probably worth looking at: https://github.com/Valks/MediaPortal-2/compare/MP2-280_Medialibrary_5000_items_limit

I went through and rewrote a lot of the content directory Implementation (adding support for UPnP 1.1) It has been a while since I've looked at it but hopefully that'll change soon when my project gets shown off at work tomorrow .

 

[FreakyJ]

I went through and rewrote a lot of the content directory Implementation (adding support for UPnP 1.1) It has been a while since I've looked at it but hopefully that'll change soon when my project gets shown off at work tomorrow .

yeah that would be awesome!
I already wondered who was working on this, but couldn't remember So I keep the fingers crossed to see you active soon again

 

[Valk]

Yeah no last 6 months a lot happened suddenly. Still very much here just a little busy for MP

 

[morpheus_xx]

I pushed some minor fixes for browsing audio+video items (like adding Bitrate and Duration, they are now visible inside WMP).

When adding this feature, I found some inconsistencies inside our Aspects like bitrates are stored as kbit/bit per second. And we even don't have a filesize property saved in ML.

I think I will extend the inbuilt aspect to hold all required (basic) information that can be used for DLNA playback.

@FreakyJ just a note: I will rebase the branch/ sqash commits sooner or later to remove the unneeded changes later.

 

[morpheus_xx]

I've added a new branch "FEAT_DLNA_v2" on MP2 repo which is based upon 10AE_Update1 test builds. This has the advantage that the FanartService for MP2 is now much more powerful (provider for local fanart, but also LogoManager binding )

I can already browse videos including cover (WMP), they also start playback (although there is a warning about possible format issues, the video profiles are not yet correct!)

Another thing to note: if you are testing UPnP with WMP, you'll find sometime old information. This is caused by an own database of WMP, it caches the service contents.

So if you try to test, it's useful to delete the DB to force fresh results. I found this page which explains the comonents: https://jordanmills.wordpress.com/tag/windows-media-player-upnp-dlna/

You could create a batch file (to be run as admin!) which kills the cache:

net stop WMPNetworkSvc
net stop upnphost
taskkill -f -im wmplayer.exe
rd /s /q "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player"
reg /delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer" /f
net start WMPNetworkSvc
net start upnphost

 

[FreakyJ]

cool I will try it later on
Just saw you added an icon, looks great!

 

[morpheus_xx]

Some more updates done: I've extended some inbuilt MediaAspects to store more useful information (i.e. the actual size of an item) and fixed some usage of fields (bitrates are now always kbps). Along with those changes I also extended SeriesAspect and MovieAspect, added IMDBID to Trakt scrobbling of episodes.

The DLNA plugin now contains few more details of items.

Breaking change:
Due to the changes MediaAspects you have to recreate all your media shares to force a full reimport

 

[FreakyJ]

I just pushed to the branch and added picture support. Was just 3 lines of code