Really plug & Play application
 

It just worked without any settings, real plug & play application.

Interestingly, you can control the Server as well.
I was able to play the music on my PC using this application.

But I could not play any video or view pictures.
Anybody else tried these?

Thanks.

Thanks. In any case, I'm going to wait until Media Streamer does video. Audio is not a priority to me.

Okay, here's what I have so far: GMediaStreamer works in Ubuntu, but a few mp3s don't play and there's no option to control the server like SimpleCenter does. TVersity doesn't work at all [just sits there]. Still haven't tried Twonky yet, but will be testing that later today. At the moment, SimpeCenter works best in Windows so far, and GMediaStreamer works well enough for Ubuntu. There's another Linux UPnP server app that I may give a try later as well. I sure hope MikeL is right about the release of Media Streamer into Maemo Garage. It would be great to see other applications using a similar UI.

Update: Twonky works and has a simple interface, but as of this version, there's no option to control the server. The other Linux UPnP server app turned out not to be a server app but a control point & player instead. So I'm sticking with the SimpleCenter for now. I hope TVersity and others get support for this app soon.

I want Video and I hope that any update to Media Streamer improves stability of video playback across the all claimed supported Nokia 770 formats when streaming on the network rather than playing locally on the device.

Also: Just to let everyone know that although Media Streamer does not currently playback Video and Pictures on the Nokia 770; I have been successfully using the Media Streamer as a controller to play Videos and Pictures on my TV using my SL300i. (via Twonky)

So in a nutshell, Media Streamer as a UPnP controller provides the majority of the Key Cidero Controller functionality on a small convenient tablet device. I can say that it appears to be very robust on my network, where even if the Wi-Fi connection drops on the network Media streamer seems to carry on elegantly without locking up the Nokia 770. I can therefore re-establish connection and carry on from where I left off in the Media renderer etc. :cool:

What exactly do you mean when you say NO option to control the server from the Nokia 770? i.e. what do you want to control on the server, the shared folders etc. (Like with the Tversity GUI, which does not run on the Nokia 770 due to Linux Flash version and memory availability issues I think?)

I have SimpleCenter installed but because I am over the 30 days, I cannot enable the UPnP server option without paying for the premium product? so cannot see what a new SimpleCenter user can see. I do not wish to pay on principle as SimpleCenter is a re-badged heavily updated version of the software that came with my Philips SL300i device, whose users provided good use feedback in the Philips forums to be effectively sold down the river when they lost interest :mad:

My hearts with the TVersity team as their product is developing in a really interesting way; providing clever AV Transcoding, Internet to local Network, RSS Feed functionality and features you will not find in any other Media Server ATM.

no luck with ushare
 

I have't been able to get the nokia to see a ushare pnp server on Fedora Core 5. It just doesn't see anything.

Update: I compiled gmediastreamer and it works with that.

Did you have to download and install the upnpsdk rpm or did libupnp in Fedora Extras work for you? In the configure step, it is stopping saying that I have no upnp installed when I just installed libupnp.

You need libupnp-devel installed. It worked fine after that.

I should add that gmediastreamer didn't like many of my ogg files even though I know they work fine. There didn't seem to be any consistent reason why it didn't like some of them that I could find but I didn't look very hard.

It's too bad I couldn't get ushare to work. It seemed more mature.

That worked like a charm ... thanks! MediaStreamer is a fairly nice app for Nokia to be hiding under a rock ... and *just* as I was typing that, it crashed and rebooted my 770 :]

Gmediaserver is skipping several of my oggs *and* mp3s too. I suspect it might be due to bad tags or at least tags that the library it uses isn't expecting. There is some verbage on the gmediaserver website about using different id3 tag libraries.

It also takes a *long* time for the contents of a subdirectory to show and the songs never seem to play quite to the end. May need to mess with the profile options.

What I meant was that there was no option to switch [the drop box] to play media server side in Twonky. Apparently I'm incorrect in that statement as you state you were able to use Media Streamer as a controller. Maybe something wrong with my settings, I'll check it out.

I don't mean to sway anyone one way or the other when choosing which software they use to act as a their media server, just trying to hammer out a rough comparison of the features of the ones I know about. From what I understand both SimpleCenter and Twonky have 30-day trials while TVersity is free from the start.

I also believe the TVersity team will get their product working with the Media Streamer really soon. I would rather use their solution in Windows than the others, but in the mean time [or 30 days in this case] I'll be using SimpleCenter and Twonky as alternatives.