Live streaming to UPNP/DNLA Player?

Jerry Hamilton

Hi,

almost all mid-range and highend-tv today have a UPNP/DNLA "streaming" client embedded, but all solutions that i've ever seen (twonkey, mediatomb etc), only support playback of stored mediafiles, not real streaming. What i am looking for would be a way to use a standard DNLA Client like WDTV Live, Popcorn Hour etc to stream live programs from tvheadend. Is DNLA even capable of something like that...? The closest thing i could find is PlayOn, but then again, most of the content in there are prerecorded programs and clips, not real live programs...

This would open a huge amount of really cheap hardware (a wdtv live is available for 80$) to be used as clients for tvheadend...

If it's even possible, any chances to implement something like this?

Jerry

Eric Valette

There as been a rather lengthy discussion on this forum about this topic. I was considered as a fool to say that http streaming via DLNA would be a good option. Basically once you have valid http URL that correspond to your live streams, the only thing you need is a DMS server capable of accepting object creation where you could create artificial objects with the URL streams and correct mime types. Mediatomb is capable of doing hat. I used it once but its currently unmaintained. miniDlna lacks the needed support.

see https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/boards/5/topics/5637

Igosr Petroff

yet another dlna server :http://xupnpd.org/t/

BTW it works on cheap asus player too. Forum here :

http://www.moservices.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=12&sid=35c5d51460491cd2f093c59ddd0237d7

Regards.

Anonymous

+1 for DLNA/UPNP implementation.

Adam Sutton

Just to make it clear. It's VERY unlikely that TVH will include a full DLNA support system, its simply not worth our effort at this stage. However many have pointed out that to get TVH working via DLNA requires very little from TVH, since there are plenty of standalone DLNA DMS that given an M3U playlist (pointing to HTTP streaming links) should do the job.

This is likely to be the only solution in the short/medium term (and possibly ever, though never say never).

Adam

Rob vh

Would those stand-alone DLNA servers also have access to the live streams?
The beauty of a solution like Mythtv is that it serves recordings as well as live stream to its clients, via the same (similar) interface.

With TVH, the two are disjunct. And a DMS would make them even more dissimilar.

Rob

Adam Sutton

Live streams and recordings are available via http and htsp. Recordings via htsp require a build from master.

Adam

Rob vh

Hi Adam
I cloned the git, changed no options on ./configure and did normal make and make install.
Running the new server, I see signal strength bars and active clients. Great.
But... XBMC on a client does not see tvheadend any more. (I assume that I (still) have to use the zeroconf search?).
What must I do to activate htsp for live+recordings in the master?
Thanks
Rob

Patrick Gaubatz

Hi,

I'd like to make you aware of a little plugin that exactly solves your problem: https://tvheadend.org/d/2343-announcement-a-tvheadend-plugin-for-the-serviio-media-server-dlna-upnp

Cheers,
Patrick