Improved UPnP serving and client

(2012-09-16 15:01)alcoheca Wrote:  Its not there..yet - I'm working on player/client tracking and these changes will make transcoding all the easier.

Great feature ideas here, much love to alcoheca!
I'm working on learning skins (wish there were a few tutorial videos in english out there, I'll have to make some when I get to know my hand from my a$$), not that savvy on the programming side yet. Hope I can contribute soon though.
Just wanted to add a feature request that may be in line with your project goals alcoheca.
Details are listed here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34059

Basically be able to drop xbmc "client" nodes, or any other type of node for that matter, around the house to receive multi-streaming audio content. Setup of various zones like "Sonos" players, to play different music everywhere or play the same music in any rooms you choose to group! I have been testing a lot of audio systems lately and I think this is one of the best features I've come across in a while. I'm surprised that XBMC does not have multi-streaming support?? (or did I miss this in XBMC 101 class?). Maybe some additional info here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=78431

Thanks for listening.

Just installed the latest nightly, and although there are a few issues to iron out (as already mentioned), my mkv files now play fine on my WDTV Live which is great news.
I think this work on the UPnP side is really important, as although we're moving toward getting XBMC on many more devices now, if we want it to be the core of our media solution, it has to be able to serve to other devices.

My only issue now is with Pictures, I know there's some work going on to improve the Picture handling side of things, but should XBMC currently serve up the picture "library" and if so, what should I be doing other than simply adding a path to the Picture section. If it doesn't, is this planned, as it would be really useful to be able to views pictures on tablets around the house.

Thanks to everyone for all the effort they put in to this incredible solution, it's really exciting to see all the development that's going on at the moment.

(2012-09-23 17:47)smb_uk Wrote:  My only issue now is with Pictures, I know there's some work going on to improve the Picture handling side of things, but should XBMC currently serve up the picture "library" and if so, what should I be doing other than simply adding a path to the Picture section. If it doesn't, is this planned, as it would be really useful to be able to views pictures on tablets around the house.

Sadly as there's no pictures library in XBMC, there's no sharing of photos. I don't know why this has never been tackled in all honesty..

(2012-09-19 23:59)Jules Wrote:  Basically be able to drop xbmc "client" nodes, or any other type of node for that matter, around the house to receive multi-streaming audio content. Setup of various zones like "Sonos" players, to play different music everywhere or play the same music in any rooms you choose to group! I have been testing a lot of audio systems lately and I think this is one of the best features I've come across in a while. I'm surprised that XBMC does not have multi-streaming support?? (or did I miss this in XBMC 101 class?). Maybe some additional info here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=78431

hi, synchronized playback is a long way off, I don't know of any UPnP devices which support the AVTransport3 service (which introduced the CLOCKSYNC feature). I'm not also sure this is the way we'd do it if we decided to implement is at all.

I suggest looking at Logitech squeezebox (is opensource, clients can run on most hardware) - that's what I use at home for synchronized music playback.

(2012-09-19 21:16)edrikk Wrote:  Hi,

I drew the basics of the Plex DLNA menu, and have uploaded to ImageShack.
Here is the link

Thanks

(2012-09-23 20:49)alcoheca Wrote:  Sadly as there's no pictures library in XBMC, there's no sharing of photos. I don't know why this has never been tackled in all honesty..

...Yet
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=141169

(2012-09-24 02:53)garbear Wrote:  

(2012-09-23 20:49)alcoheca Wrote:  Sadly as there's no pictures library in XBMC, there's no sharing of photos. I don't know why this has never been tackled in all honesty..

...Yet
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=141169

Amazing, I really hope this is adopted soon

Low priority request:
I noticed when browsing available UPnP servers on my TV that some of them are listed with a branded icon. Would be nice to have such an icon for XBMC as well.

hi, that's done and here:

https://github.com/alcoheca/xbmc/branches

Can't wait for this round of merges.
Awesome!