Improved UPnP serving and client

Should I be 'worried' that there's been no activity in the git (any branch) for 2 weeks?

BTW, wanted to share in the the current nightly builds of XBMC, the DLNA server is seen on my devices (Sony TV, Apple iPad/iPhone using Media Link Player), etc, BUT no files are shown in the tree. Basically I see the "Videos" folder, but it's empty....

(2012-08-14 21:18)edrikk Wrote:  Should I be 'worried' that there's been no activity in the git (any branch) for 2 weeks?

That's up to you

(2012-08-14 21:18)edrikk Wrote:  BTW, wanted to share in the the current nightly builds of XBMC, the DLNA server is seen on my devices (Sony TV, Apple iPad/iPhone using Media Link Player), etc, BUT no files are shown in the tree. Basically I see the "Videos" folder, but it's empty....

Are you running on linux, and can you compile your own build and test? If so give my upgrade-platinum branch a whirl and see if the problem still exists.

Actually I just built xbmc 's master branch and I'm seeing the same issue. I'll look at it tonight, video library is working in my branches.

Thanks Alcoheca.
Actually no, I'm running windows builts (on Windows 7 to be precise). It's great that at least it's a platform agnostic issue which you reproduced.

Yeah I don't know why it stopped working, it's probably something simple. Hopefully if I get the platinum upgrade ship shape then this will be merged sooner rather than later.

@alcoheca
here's fix proposal https://github.com/pieh/xbmc/commit/27f5...a7ef606152 for empty videos node - problem is that "videodb://" path will return empty dir now, will need to check with Montellese as this commit introduced it https://github.com/pieh/xbmc/commit/9738...9e9038aa4f

That looks like a nice solution to me (didn't test if it produces any problems) but you might wanna ping jmarshall on it as well as he introduced the whole videodb customization. My changes including the new CVideoDbUrl are only meant to be used for accesses to the database. It does not cover any artificial nodes or files view.

I don't know if this is in any way useful to you alcoheca but Serviio wiki has public info on device profiles, might save you some work hunting down info on whats supported for some devices.

(2012-09-08 12:28)Starstream Wrote:  I don't know if this is in any way useful to you alcoheca but Serviio wiki has public info on device profiles, might save you some work hunting down info on whats supported for some devices.

Hi, yeah that's useful, I've also been looking at this http://www.upnp-database.info/listDevices.jsp

(2012-09-11 22:12)alcoheca Wrote:  

(2012-09-08 12:28)Starstream Wrote:  I don't know if this is in any way useful to you alcoheca but Serviio wiki has public info on device profiles, might save you some work hunting down info on whats supported for some devices.

Hi, yeah that's useful, I've also been looking at this http://www.upnp-database.info/listDevices.jsp

Plex Media Serve have similar DLNA client profiles in XML format for UPnP devices that that can override the default device fields, maybe borrow that idea too?

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topi...a-devices/

Would be nice if XBMC's UPnP server could also support DLNA profiles via XML format so that users can edit them themselves without writing C++ code.

I believe that they use matching headers by regular expression their DLNA profiles, kind of similar to XBMC's scraper format that could be updated as addons?

http://elan.plexapp.com/2012/03/29/this-...hers-dlna/

Quote:Secondly, there are like seven bazillion DLNA devices. At least. We’ve focused on support for two of them primarily (the PS3, and the Xbox360) and one other (the WD TV Live). The good news is that we have a very simple yet powerful XML-based configuration (see here for the current one) system which can be used to describe new DLNA clients’ capabilities. We can push out new profiles to everyone automatically, and you can extend it with your own profiles. (For those who care, just make your own dlnaclientprofiles.xml file in the Plex Media Server application support folder. And please, please, share your new profiles with us so that everyone can benefit!)

Otherwise like Starstream said, looking at Plex's DLNA client profiles might save you some work hunting down info on whats supported for some devices.