[mythtv-users] uPnP and fast forward / skip

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/24/2011 05:23 PM, Bob Diss wrote:
> Hi all.  Just purchased a new Samsung TV with uPnP/DLNA capabilities, and was immediately able to use it to play my MythTV content.  However, I don't seem to have good support for skipping around in the TV's playback.
> I can usually skip backward/forward in 10 second increments by pressing the TV remote's left and right arrow buttons.  However, these small jumps take 3/5 seconds to perform, so it hardly seems worth it.
>
> I cannot "fast forward/reverse" by pressing the>>  or<<  buttons -- the TV says "feature not implemented".
>
> Is there something I could improve by changing settings in Myth?  By helping to implement more features in the uPnp support?  Or am I just stuck with a poor uPnP client in the TV?

You could change MythTV settings so a mythfrontend system is "setting" 
next to the TV so you can take full advantage of the capabilities of 
mythfrontend (seeking, jumping, commercial skip, timestretch, access to 
recording rules, UI, etc.) and not be constrained to just UPnP playback 
with a poor (TV-provided) UI/UX.  :)

Mike