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MarkyC · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-23, 21:59 by MarkyC.)

Hey all, I haven't checked out the XBMC source code yet, but I recently switched over to your platform from TVersity, whom, as you know now charge for the basic version (which I couldn't get to work on Win8 x64, and was not issued a refund).

I'm just wondering what are the technical restrictions in not being able to use addons through DLNA. It seems like, since everything is displayed in a list view, a list view should be possible through DLNA. Granted, we'd have to make sure that the request is fulfilled within DLNA timeout settings.

Here's an example: Let's say I have the YouTube addon hooked up to my YouTube favourites. I'd like to be able to play my favourites via DLNA on my Smart TV (or some such device). When I click a video, my XBMC server downloads the file, and transcodes it on-the-fly to a format my TV can play.

Is there any effort underway to implement this type of feature?

**Martijn** · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-23, 22:01 by Martijn.)

Don't post in development with requests

MarkyC · 2013-04-23, 22:17

Though I'm sure this is a much requested feature, I posted in development in hopes of finding the technical restrictions holding this feature back.

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2013-04-24, 08:43

Latest nightly builds (wiki) can push some add-on content over UPnP/DLNA using "play with" from the contextual menu (and enabling "look for UPnP devices" in Settings -> Services -> UPnP).

**da-anda** · 2013-04-24, 11:07

(2013-04-23, 21:58)MarkyC Wrote: Here's an example: Let's say I have the YouTube addon hooked up to my YouTube favourites. I'd like to be able to play my favourites via DLNA on my Smart TV (or some such device). When I click a video, my XBMC server downloads the file, and transcodes it on-the-fly to a format my TV can play.

Is there any effort underway to implement this type of feature?

XBMC has no transcoding yet - but it's on the list, see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162225

topfs2 · 2013-04-24, 11:34

afaik there is nothing really stopping it and I think rygel etc does this (with their plugins). So its just a matter of making the upnp server in xbmc plugin aware (most likely not the smallest of tasks Tongue

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MarkyC · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-24, 14:46 by MarkyC.)

(2013-04-24, 11:07)da-anda Wrote: XBMC has no transcoding yet - but it's on the list, see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162225

Interesting. I'm also a CS student. I'll see if I can join XBMC's GSoC project (I sent a message to alcoheca), since I already have a nicely built profiles.xml from my TVersity sertup. I can look into porting some of these settings over to XBMC.

(2013-04-24, 08:43)Ned Scott Wrote: Latest nightly builds (wiki) can push some add-on content over UPnP/DLNA using "play with" from the contextual menu (and enabling "look for UPnP devices" in Settings -> Services -> UPnP).

Thank you, I'll look into this.

(2013-04-24, 11:34)topfs2 Wrote: afaik there is nothing really stopping it and I think rygel etc does this (with their plugins). So its just a matter of making the upnp server in xbmc plugin aware (most likely not the smallest of tasks )

Thanks for the tip, I'm looking at it now

steve1977 · 2016-06-11, 10:12

(2013-04-24, 11:34)topfs2 Wrote: afaik there is nothing really stopping it and I think rygel etc does this (with their plugins). So its just a matter of making the upnp server in xbmc plugin aware (most likely not the smallest of tasks )

Pulling up a very old thread. Any chance to make UPNP server addon aware? I would really love to host music addons (e.g., Spotify) on Kodi and then access streams from UPNP clients. Any chance?