Upnp

[Jase]

Hello

Does your dongle support the use of nas drives via Upnp the device i have in mind is a synology ds-106 http://synology.com if so can this fuction be used without the pc being switched on.

Many Thanks Jase.

[mvallevand]

Hello

Does your dongle support the use of nas drives via Upnp the device i have in mind is a synology ds-106 http://synology.com

Yes and no. Once the wireless card driver got added, the amount of memory available for UPnP was greatly reduced so you might not be able to load large UPnP libraries. Also the maximum bitrate for video files from the UPnP is reduced because the http protocol has lots more overhead for the media stream and I never got more than 8Mbs

I've got 3 NAS's two with UPnP and mvpmc finds them both, plus any PC servers I have running. One caveat mvpmc cannot run as a renderer to a UPnP control point like Cidero.

Since I doubt a local UPnP server has any transcoding capability my recommendation for a NAS with mvpmc would be simply to use native Samba shares and mount them in the dongle.bin.config startup script. The advantage here is that assuming you were using you NAS for GBPVR storage you would get immediate access to files. With UPnP typically you have to wait until the UPnP server scans the media contents which is a pain.

if so can this function be used without the pc being switched on.

Your PC doesn't need to be on to access a NAS or a UPnP device, and I even load the dongle from my NSLU2, so the PC only has to be on when I do emulation mode.

Martin

[Jase]

when using mvpmc i can get it to list files from my upnp servers but i dont seem to be able to view photos is there any settings i need to change to get this to work

Many thanks jase

[mvallevand]

when using mvpmc i can get it to list files from my upnp servers but i dont seem to be able to view photos is there any settings i need to change to get this to work

Many thanks jase

The lack of memory problem is most likely affecting things here since jpeg processing is the most memory intensive operation in mvpmc. You might be able to load a png. You also need the nightly or my alpha to load a progressive jpeg even in native mode.

Actually I was a bit surprised, I went to one of my smallest UPnP shares and it can still play audio video and jpegs over a wired LAN leaving 300k free. Are you running wireless? If not the only thing I suggest is minimizing the amount of files that you are sharing (I have about 40 in total) and see how it works.

Note for this test I am running ushare on an NSLU2 NAS, nothing fancy.

Martin

[Jase]

My mvp is wired to my router but the share i was trying to access was on my laptop which is connected to my router via wireless it was only a small share about 5 pictures i think i am using the alpha dongle.

Many Thanks Jase

[mvallevand]

My mvp is wired to my router but the share i was trying to access was on my laptop which is connected to my router via wireless it was only a small share about 5 pictures i think i am using the alpha dongle.

Many Thanks Jase

I'm confused are you trying to access a share or a UPnP device?

Martin

[Jase]

Sorry i am not being very clear i have a upnp server running on my laptop, i also tried to display pictures from my mobile phone which is a upnp device both were very small shares and both were connected to the router wirelesly.

Thanks again jase

[mvallevand]

Sorry i am not being very clear i have a upnp server running on my laptop, i also tried to display pictures from my mobile phone which is a upnp device both were very small shares and both were connected to the router wirelesly.

Thanks again jase

Several devices use UPnP for discovery but keep the display proprietary. mvpmc's support is based on djmount and here is a link with supported servers http://djmount.sourceforge.net/ My experience with UPnP is poor, many because it is not as universal as you should expect. While gbpvr is custom, in many ways it is more open.

Martin

[David]

I loaded up 3.3, then the very latest (4/20). I use TVersity for my UPnP server. My library is fairly large. I did not have very much luck browsing or accessing my media. The MVPMC dongle often hung on various folders or rebooted. When I could kick off a video I got about 20 seconds then it would die; further I usually had to restart my UPnP server as well.

The MVPMC dongle is very interesting. I wish the UPnP stuff was a bit more stable. No myth or replay at my house, so I couldn't check that out. I'll take a look at the config script to see what else I can get it to do for me.

[mvallevand]

I loaded up 3.3, then the very latest (4/20). I use TVersity for my UPnP server. My library is fairly large. I did not have very much luck browsing or accessing my media. The MVPMC dongle often hung on various folders or rebooted. When I could kick off a video I got about 20 seconds then it would die; further I usually had to restart my UPnP server as well.

The 20 second video doesn't sound like memory, although it could be. To confirm you can telnet to you mvp while it is streaming as root and run the command top. I'd be interested in the free memory and CPU utilzation numbers. Ctrl-C to exit top.

Also make sure you use my tversisty profile for mvpmc from this link.

http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand/

The MVPMC dongle is very interesting. I wish the UPnP stuff was a bit more stable. No myth or replay at my house, so I couldn't check that out. I'll take a look at the config script to see what else I can get it to do for me.

Actually I only use TVersity for one thing and that is streaming RealAudio and it UPnP is fine and stable for that. The config script will be useful when the plugin architecture is available, since it will provide some significant memory saving potential.

Thanks for the feedback.

Martin