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Doug wrote: > The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is an effort by Sony... And yet they didn't patent it and keep it proprietary? How unlike Sony. :-) > [The Panasonic DVD player] could play nothing. That's usually been my experience with UPnP. I observed this recently when trying to play recorded TV shows on my MythTV back-end from a DLNA client running on my Android phone. Several different DLNA clients tried. All could browse show titles, but none could play. The video format was MPEG2, which should be widely supported (and was claimed to be supported by at least some of the clients). > Apparently the file system that has the various > videos is not understood by the Panasonic device. What gives you that impression? Shouldn't DLNA hide the file system from the client? Seems more likely to be a codec problem, or just inconsistencies in the DLNA implementation. > So much for DLNA certification. > So much for the Universal part of UPNP. Yeah, they do seem to have some interoperability problems. But even when it works, you basically just have simple read-only access to a collection of files. It seems to be of marginal benefit compared to using a network file system to share files. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/
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