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Ok, I wanted to have an uplifting title having red the debate from couple of days ago.

First thing first. Latest version of upnp plugin is the first version that actually works with MythTV for me. I know some of the Canola team don't support MythTV but there are quite a few of us using MythTV as our media server. And I know that MythTV's implementation of upnp is not that great, I haven't been able to use it with any other player. On the other hand, I was kind of disheartened with some of the comments from the team, but I don't blame them. Their software is free after all.

After a brief test here are couple of quick observations:

Music plays fine, however large music collection takes time to load. On the positive side lists comes up immediately and is updated in the background.

The mpeg2 SD recordings cannot play reasonably well as is. So what I did is quickly trascoded couple using ffmpeg with -target vcd. The results played wonderfully on my N800 over wireless.

Only mpeg2 video files show up available for me. No avi files!

All in all, I think I can finally have transparent and automated process to watch my recordings on N800 with help of Canola!

Don't give up on MythTV please, and thanks for awesome work!

Hi nedim,

Thanks for the info. The whole thing as about not having man-power to install-test and dedicate ourselves to support mythTV. But..

We will do our best in the UPNP protocol area. The more mythTV supports it the better it will be. It's just like if we say we are supporting something, you can bet that we would kill a couple of big trucks of bugs to make it work perfect

In the other side, we are dealing with this list problem, we have a couple of options related to servers that are not able to send packages of items:

a. we can do what we are doing today : load on the background with :
i. faster loading, but this bring canola to almost unsuable state if you are not going only to play something and let it there. If you start browsing the other sections.. than you have a problem

ii. medium to slow loading speed, but Canola remains responsiveness if you are going to browser around.

This is quite an issue, and we are trying to come up with the best strategy, because theres no magic when your collections is over 12k songs

Marcelo

Funny enough, for me the plugin cannot find my Twonky server anymore with this version, whereas with the initial version of the upnp plugin it worked fine for me for audio, video and pictures. My Twonky server is running on a NSLU2 box. Anyone else ran into the same issue?

Nif,

you are running the latest version righ? We will track it asap

Marcel