Gblenn;664838 Wrote: > And by the way, DLNA does not require the controller to be either in the > server or the renderer, it can be a third device... In fact in the case > of a Phone or Tablet, that is a very likely use. > I assume you are aware of how things work on e.g. PlugPlayer where it > detects the Server and Renderer and controls both. I choose which media > to stream from the server and I choose which renderer/player to > view/hear it on. If a player is not on, it is greyed out of course. > Yes, and you are probably aware how limited that is unless you can use e.g. Twonkly's extensions to the DLNA standard. And I don't believe here that Logitech is doing anything to extend it.
I know that theoretically the control point can be separate, however, a DLNA control point takes FULL control of the renderer, that is: if you take away the control point (e.g. because it's going to sleep) then the player will play the rest of the song and that's it. DLNA renderers don't have a concept like a playlist or their own state, it's not like sending remote commands to the renderer, it's like the renderer does absolutely NOTHING without the control point. It's actually the same for the Squeezebox but in the Squeezebox worls, the control point is part of the server and the "remote control" apps and devices are just a user interface for the control point. > > I can control Volume up/down on my TV today, when viewing a video from > my server (Twonky) or Internet based content (YouTube) for example. I > can do ff/rew to some extent depending on server I use. Actually for > Video I think DLNA is still not working to the extent I would like. > That's because TVs and "multimediaplayer" usually contain a control point themselves but that CP usually requires a TV to be on for their user interface. And there is no DLNA way to control another CP. > > But basically for a "simple" task like listening to music, the Yamaha > player only needs to be controlled in terms of which Source (stream) to > play and the Volume I assume. The rest is up to the server, as I guess > it's done today albeit proprietary. > If the "stream" is internet radio: yes. If the stream is a song then well, yes, you listen to a single song. Or is crossfading for example done at the squeezeplayer or is it happening in the server, or both even? > > In any case, what I am thinking then is that with LMS and in your case > iPeng, one could actually do some kind of Hybrid. > You could but then somebody would have to... well, let's see... > > BUT, perhaps some DLNA "controlling" is needed also on the server side, > I don't know though. > Yep. LMS would need a CP that could be controlled like a Squeezebox. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91044 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
