On Friday 27 July 2007, Alan Williamson wrote: > Thanks Dan, however this all requires you control it using a web > browser; i already have that setup with SlimServer. > > i don't want to have to juggle a media+player and the web+browser on my > N800 while listening to music. Its clunky and in today's modern age, we > should demand something sexier!! :) canola certainly fits that bill. I was trying to suggest a browser-based experience--not requiring the media player--with a hint that there should be a media player browser plugin. > I have been playing with USHARE and so far thats *not* too bad -- > however it croaks on certain directories which i am not sure why. So i > will investigate that. I too will check it out. I am testing gmediaserver (audio only afaik); it was easy to compile and run. However, I am not getting reliable results. mythtv is a upnp server, but I only use it as a backend for recording, and its not setup for sharing my other media. I will explore that one next. > On the N800 front: Canola and MediaPlayer are both performing well; but > the MediaStreamer refuses to find the USHARE server. > > On this journey, it has taught me one thing; this isn't for the faint > hearted; setting up this little device to do something as simple as > streaming from your music collection is not for the casual user. This > is yet another hole in the N800 armour in terms of mass adoption. well, don't forget that once canola and a server like ushare are working good, except for mp3, you need to setup transcoding especially for Ogg Vorbis and video. ushare calls a upnp server that does transcoding on-the-fly a "media adapter."
