Re: [Hampshire] upnp

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Author: Benjie Gillam
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] upnp
I've used

http://www.tvmobili.com/

before - it's cross platform. It is not open source and I don't fully trust it so ran it under a separate user account but it seems to work.

Not sure on a FLOSS alternative - I think DLNA has license fees?

B.

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On 24 Oct 2012, at 18:35, Anton Piatek <anton@???> wrote:

> Any dlna experience on linux? I wondered about their relationship, sadly my tv isn't networked.
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> On Oct 24, 2012 6:28 PM, "Benjie Gillam" <benjie@???> wrote:
>> You might want to look at DLNA too (it's built on top of UPnP) - thats where renderer/server/controller/etc are defined and often helps solve these issues I've found.
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>> Cheers,
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>> On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:32, Anton Piatek <anton@???> wrote:
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>>> I have been playing with upnp lately and by using media tomb on my linux box I can make all audio, video and pictures available on my phone and tablet, which is cool. Unfortunately (unsurprisingly?) Microsoft buggered up the upnp protocol on the xbox so it can't find media.
>>> My phone also has a upnp server, so I can share files from there too. It also appears that upnp allows ayback to another device, which sounds cool.
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>>> This brings me to my question. Is there any linux software that cab be a upnp playback target or renderer so that I can use my phone to browse media (stored on my phone, tablet or pc) and have the playback happen on my linux pc which is connected to my tv and hifi?
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