Now that home networks are more usual, it would be nice to have some working software media renderer which does not cost a lot of money. The few renderers available does not seem to fully support the UPnP and DLNA specifications.
My goal was not to use VLC as a server but as a renderer. I have tried several servers (Cidero, Intel and others). What I need is a media renderer which propagates itself on the network and is able to stream TV-signals. The point of having a media renderer which broadcasts itself on the network is t...
I have now configured VLC again with the libupnp-dev package on ubuntu. This worked and I now have a UPnP option in preferences-playlist-service discovery. i can also look for UPnP devices in my playlist with the service discovery option. However, it does not work exactly as I hoped. The VLC discove...
Thanks for replying. <<So you need to get the source code, all of the dependent packages and do it yourself - remembering to set upnp to enabled. I did install vlc (and all the dependencies) using source code! Any idea how to enable upnp? I have not seen any commands for configuring with upnp. Øystein
Hi I've been trying for some time now to use VLC as a media renderer supporting UPnP. It is stated in change-logs that UPnP is supported by the latest version of VLC but only on linux. Therefore I have installed the latest version of Ubuntu and I have downloaded the source for VLC 0.8.5 and installe...