[mythtv-users] av renderer on frontend(-only) machine

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sat Jan 18 16:44:39 UTC 2014


On 1/18/2014 7:18 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> My Son's Windows 8 machine seems to have found an "AV Renderer" service
> on one of my frontend (only, no BE on it) machines around here.
>
> Does 0.27 really have a UPnP AV Rendering service built into it?  I
> wasn't aware that this had gotten added at some point.
>
> Please don't confuse my query with the UPnP Media Server that I know
> exists on the BE.  The particular machine that this "AV Renderer" is
> being seen on it a FE machine only with no BE running on it at all.
>
> So, has a "Renderer" really been added to the FE?
>
> If not, it would be a wonderful addition.  :-)

MythFrontend does not currently have any UPnP capability.  It would only 
be reporting itself over UPnP to facilitate autodetection for access to 
the frontend control socket and Services API.


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