Improved UPnP serving and client

I've been playing with Frodo's upnp on my installations at home, and it works great for my TV library. I *really* like not having to deal with the library updates on each of my clients. Thanks for your efforts to date in making xbmc's upnp a real contender.

Movies, however are an issue. Multipart movies will not play. Unfortunately about 75% of my collection is in the form of: movie-CD1.avi, movie-CD2.avi - I assume most people would have collections containing multi-part files like this.

Does the upnp specification not allow for file-stacking, or is this something that could be fixed within xbmc?

(2013-03-20 20:25)RPico Wrote:  I've been playing with Frodo's upnp on my installations at home, and it works great for my TV library. I *really* like not having to deal with the library updates on each of my clients. Thanks for your efforts to date in making xbmc's upnp a real contender.

Movies, however are an issue. Multipart movies will not play. Unfortunately about 75% of my collection is in the form of: movie-CD1.avi, movie-CD2.avi - I assume most people would have collections containing multi-part files like this.

Does the upnp specification not allow for file-stacking, or is this something that could be fixed within xbmc?

same here. i am using upnp for my 2nd client and love the functionality. but unfortunately 10-20% are multi-part movie files which are not playable through upnp.

Even if Upnp supported it, you are then reliant on rhe client supporting it too (not just xbmc).. I would say that (my opinion) is that such splits are a dying breed any ways... (Both avi AND mulipart)...

It's been mentioned in the past that the long term plan is to support transcoding. Once transcoding is implemented, it would most likelly solve the issue of split files as well.

Does upnp provide playlist support? If so, is it possible for the server to create a playlist on the fly containing the locations of the stacked files?