[mythtv-users] UPNP and mythmusic, slightly off-topic

[Steve Greene]

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 21:06 +0100, Fredrik Hallgarde wrote:
> > However, I thought I'd try Boxee on the Windows 7 side.  Works pretty
> > well, but the web stuff is kind of choppy (looks like 15fps).
> > Interestingly, the TV and video from mythbuntu works perfectly!  The
> > music files (flac and MP3) not so much.  In Boxee, every mythmusic is
> > seen, but shows up as 4.1GB files and won't play!  WMP12 sees the files
> > as well (after installing the Illimable DirectShow filters) but the show
> > up as 0 bytes and won't play, either.
> >
> > Anybody here have any insights?  Wondering if I should being working
> > with a more current version, rather than the Mythbuntu packages?  
> >
> >   
> Not sure it is applicable but here is a thought.
> 
> Are you mounting your music from another server via Samba? I recently 
> found out that samba typically isn't compiled with support for "send 
> file" (or something like that) which makes it unable to present the file 
> with proper filesizes...
> Try moving the file to the backend and try again.
> 
> Fredrik
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No samba.  UPNP just plain doesn't work with my music files.