"erland" Wrote: > Does other DLNA based solutions available on the market today provide a > more intuitive and forgiving browsing experience ?
There's one DLNA server that does quite a bit... it's the 'PS3 Media Server' (http://www.ps3mediaserver.org). Having looked at it quickly, it appears that it does realtime video transcoding. So if a file is in a format that isn't supported by a device, it will transcode it to a format that IS supported by the device (LMS does this with audio only, not video). It also does some audio transcoding, but it doesn't look like it supports as many formats as LMS does. And it even supports RAW picture files from Canon and Nikon... not just JPEGs. Obviously the realtime video transcoding requires some CPU/GPU horsepower behind it to make it work well... so putting something like that in LMS, which is often run on smaller, lower-powered devices/systems, probably isn't going to happen. But the feature of realtime video transcoding would be one of the best things that could be added to enable a wide range of player/media rendering devices to play any video file, regardless of its format. I can't speak to how PS3 Media Server handles browsing through your files, since I've not downloaded it, but it seems to have a rather large user base, so I would imagine that it works fairly well. -- virgiliomi squeezebox devices: boom, duet, and radio dlna devices: sony bravia tv, wmp11 on win7 lms 7.7.2 beta running on a readynas ultra 2 plus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ virgiliomi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33715 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93207 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
