[mythtv-users] [Bulk] Re: UPnP debugging/setup help

Mark J. Scheller mark.j.scheller at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 16:17:33 UTC 2008


Actually, I don't have a PS3 yet.  It's part of the grand scheme to upgrade
to HD, but nothing has been purchased yet.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Norm Dugas <normdugas at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Mark J. Scheller wrote:
> > Hi Norm,
> >
> > I do have the real IP address in mythtv-setup.  I think I ran into an
> > issue with that way back when I added a new remote front-end.  Just to
> > note, I'm not getting any error using djmount, I am just not seeing my
> > myth backend system or anything it might want to share.
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> >
> > [MjS]
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Norm Dugas <normdugas at yahoo.ca
> > <mailto:normdugas at yahoo.ca>> wrote:
> >
> >     Mark J. Scheller wrote:
> >     > I am looking at an upgrade to HD and for a new front-end, a PS3.
> >     > Looks like UPnP is the current preferred method so I started to dig
> >     > around to see what I could do with it.  I'm running the current
> 0.21
> >     > version from atrpms under CentOS 5 (e.g.
> >     > mythtv-backend-0.21-187.el5.i386.rpm).  I decided to try this out
> >     > first with a Fedora 9 laptop and djmount and even after stopping
> >     > iptables, I can't see anything from my mythbackend server.
> >     >
> >     > The documentation for UPnP in Myth is so scant I assume there's
> >     almost
> >     > nothing that needs to be done to use it.  So what am I missing
> >     here???
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > [MjS]
> >     >
> >
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> >     In mythtv-setup, do you have the actual IP address of the backend
> >     or is
> >     it set to localhost/127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>?  I recall now
> >     that I had to change this
> >     to the actual IP.  Once that was done and mythbackend restarted, I
> was
> >     able to see it in my PS3.  I also had to install Mythvideo and
> >     Mythmusic
> >     so that I could adjust the directories to be able to see them on my
> >     PS3.  As for HD, I capture from firewire on a Motorola DCT6412 but
> >     when
> >     I play back on the PS3, I get no sound so I suspect I'm going to
> >     have to
> >     set up a transcode job or something.  I haven't really done much
> >     troubleshooting on that part yet since I have my frontend right
> >     next to
> >     my PS3.
> >
> >     Hope this helps,
> >     Norm
> >
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> Is your PS3 on the same subnet?  On your PS3, have you tried Video ->
> Search for Media Servers (or something like that)?  Do you have the
> latest version of software on your PS3?  When I got mine, it did not do
> uPNP well plus I was still running Myth .20.   On earlier version, the
> PS3 would get a lot of network errors causing the video playback to
> stop.  I haven't seen that happen in a while and I'm now on the latest
> which is 2.35.
>
> Norm
>
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