I am looking for a (preferably open source) UPnP media server.
I have found TwonkyVision (http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/) which does what I want (serve mp3 files to a wireless media appliance) and there is even a free (but not open) version that has just enough functionality to get me by.
But I would far prefer to use an Open Source alternative (if one exists)
Anyone out there played with this stuff before ?
Also in the installation instructions for TwonkyVision it says "Make sure that you have a multicast route set for the server by issuing a "route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0"."
Not knowing much about multicast I thought I would pass this through the ALUG sanity filter. Is there a specific subnet reserved for multicast traffic that I must use (as defined in the above route statement) ? What happens if my local subnet is different ?
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:02:13PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I am looking for a (preferably open source) UPnP media server.
I have found TwonkyVision (http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/) which does what I want (serve mp3 files to a wireless media appliance) and there is even a free (but not open) version that has just enough functionality to get me by.
But I would far prefer to use an Open Source alternative (if one exists)
What's the device you want to serve up to?
J.
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:55 pm, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
What's the device you want to serve up to?
J.
Netgear MP101, I just have to get it working on Linux at home or I'll have to give it to one of the guys in the office that runs Windows.
I wanted a Slim devices Squeezebox as the software is pretty cool and the software (even the device firmware) is all open, but the Netgear is a freebie and the squeezebox is £180.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:23:04AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:55 pm, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
What's the device you want to serve up to?
Netgear MP101, I just have to get it working on Linux at home or I'll have to give it to one of the guys in the office that runs Windows.
Looks nice; I have a WMA11B which doesn't have any form of display (it hooks up to a TV). On the plus side it runs Linux and someone's got software for it to talk daap rather than UPnP and there's a Free version of that available.
J.
On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:34 pm, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
Looks nice; I have a WMA11B which doesn't have any form of display (it hooks up to a TV). On the plus side it runs Linux and someone's got software for it to talk daap rather than UPnP and there's a Free version of that available.
J.
I considered getting one of those a while back but the using the TV as a display made it a little too clumsy in my particular circumstances. The photo thing the WMA11B does didn't really interest me either.
That said it sounds like it is a bit more flexible than the MP101, I am not sure what the netgear unit is running at the moment (I'll probably have a poke about with it some time) nmap can't find anything interesting to poke about with and it won't even respond to a ping so OS fingerprinting is out for the moment.
The only complaints people seem to have against the MP101 relate to the buggy windows software it ships with, not a concern to me. The hardware is actually quite nice.
On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:34 pm, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I have a WMA11B which doesn't have any form of display (it hooks up to a TV). On the plus side it runs Linux and someone's got software for it to talk daap rather than UPnP and there's a Free version of that available.
Just had a poke about with the MP101 and it is not going to be running Linux (or ever have linux ported to it). Essentially (networking bits aside) it is running a little 8bit Microcontroller and an Intergrated mpeg decoder/DAC chip called the Wolfs XWM8721. So it's more of a hardware bound device than the WMA11B, which is (I belive) built around a fairly meaty ARM/XScale processor.
Thursday 10 March 2005 11:34 pm, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I have a WMA11B which doesn't have any form of display (it hooks up to a TV).
Actually thinking about it, if the alternative (or original) software is open source (or at least if the UI bits are) and the thing has some sort of parallel or serial IO internally (I bet it does) then it should be possible to get LCDd (part of lcdproc) ported over to it and then write a new lcdproc client to translate the UI to the LCD screen display.
Almost wishing I had gone for the Linksys one now as there is more to try and break.
Seriously though if you fancy doing the software bits then I can help you get the display interfaced (I may even have a suitable display kicking around here)
In a geeky sort of way it would be really cool just to see the thing running the standard lcdproc clients (uptime,CPU graphs, memory use etc)
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:02:13 +0000, "Wayne Stallwood" ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com said:
I am looking for a (preferably open source) UPnP media server.
I have found TwonkyVision (http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/) which does what I want (serve mp3 files to a wireless media appliance) and there is even a free (but not open) version that has just enough functionality to get me by.
But I would far prefer to use an Open Source alternative (if one exists)
Anyone out there played with this stuff before ?
I don't really know much about it, but my colleagues use Apple's QuickTime server. Apple've produced an open source version called Darwin QuickTime server: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/
Cheers, Richard
On Thursday 10 March 2005 9:47 am, Richard Lewis wrote:
I don't really know much about it, but my colleagues use Apple's QuickTime server. Apple've produced an open source version called Darwin QuickTime server: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/ Cheers, Richard
Doesn't look like it is actually going to do what I need, but thanks anyway.
As it is TwonkyVision is not too bad, it is pretty much zero configuration in that I just ran it (as a regular user) from the top of my music folder and it was ready to serve files to the MP101, now for reasons I can't be bothered to fathom right now, it's web configuration interface has vanished. But apart from that it is working really well.
Yes I know zero configuration is supposed to be the whole point of UPnP but I still find myself surprised when things work that well.
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