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I've been running the 0.21-fixes weekly builds of MythTV front-end from the Mythbuntu guys on an Ubuntu desktop, and it has developed a persistent problem of hanging when the show list is being retrieved from the back-end ("Watch Recordings")[1]. To work around this until the problem gets fixed, I've been looking for a UPnP video client. Having used Canola on my N810 to access MythTV via UPnP successfully, I didn't think this would be a big deal... VNC supposedly has some support to be a UPnP client, but the version packaged for Ubuntu doesn't included it. Even the PPA maintained by a VNC developer doesn't seem to include it. Supposedly this has been remedied for the next Ubuntu release. I've read mention that Totem can do this, with the help of the python-coherence package. I've installed it, and no new plugins or options showed up in Totem. I haven't ran across documentation covering this. Most mentions of successful UPnP access talk about using djmount[2], which provides a FUSE file system so you can browse a UPnP servers with any application. Sounds fine, except it isn't packaged for Ubuntu, and more importantly, hasn't been touched since 2006. Usually when something gets abandoned like that, something better has come along. Other UPnP client mentions I see are about Rhythmbox and other music players, which I expect are irrelevant to the task of playing videos. Is there really no main stream Linux media player with UPnP support? I guess the next thing to try is a port of Canola to Ubuntu that I downloaded a while ago, but haven't had any use for. -Tom 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/396814 2. http://djmount.sourceforge.net/ -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/
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