[mythtv-users] UPnP and Video Metadata

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Charles Waddell <cdwaddell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> After a couple years away from MythTV, I got back into it this week, and was
>> wondering if my setup is wrong or if this is by design. I am running the
>> latest MythTV release on Ubuntu 9.10 with a PS3 UPnP as a streaming client
>> in my living room. Should the UPnP menu break down into Title, Director,
>> etc... if metadata has been imported for all of my media. Currently, I only
>> get videoroot with the folder structure and the filenames for the videos.
>>
>> I tried searching the list, and apologise if I missed a reply to a similar
>> question in the past, but I have been off of the mailing list for a while.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> CD Waddell
>
> The uPnP server does its own scan, and doesn't use the DB metadata at
> all, so what you see is accurate.

depending on your definition of 'accurate'. Perhaps you mean 'expected
in the current implementation' :)

Seems strange to let myth gather all this metadata and then not have
upnp use it. But some of the recent posts lead me to believe that upnp
is still both a black art in general [1] and a work in progress for
mythtv.

[1] in that there seem to be many conflicting and varying
implementations of the 'standard'.