AndrewFG wrote:
> If you want to make an assertion like that, you have to provide us with
> specifics. { IMHO, as in a court of law, your assertion is wrong until
> proven otherwise. }
>
No, it's just my opinion after spending quite a bit of time on the topic
over the last year. It's overly complex, uses badly performing
interfaces like SOAP and the architecture is 1990ish not taking into
account the realities of today's world. I especially do not believe that
it's possible to do a well-performing controller-renderer model that
does not have the CP on either the server or the renderer. I know there
are extensions that would help but they are being supported by close to
nobody.
I know good people who have tried hard to do multiroom-synchronization
with UPnP and who have failed and reverted to proprietary solutions
instead.
At best it's a data source protocol. Which is why it works for video
where this is actually all you need. No need for gapless transitions
between movies and you also rarely queue up dozens of them at a time.
Plus your CP is usually on the renderer, after all, you do already have
a screen.
>
> No. Most of them don't suck. But many of them are very shoddy, I suspect
> mostly because the coders did not RTFM well enough before starting to
> cut code. (Been there, done that.)
Sorry, English being not my mother tongue I fail to fully get the subtle
semantics of "is shoddy but doesn't suck".
Actually I don't believe this is due to incapable programmers. System
faults are often put on the developers. Maybe I'm wrong and out of
coincidence, all capable remote control programmers came to decide to
develop for systems like the Squeezebox and all the bad ones happened to
develop UPnP remotes but I don't believe that's the case.
There's also a reason why CE companies do these bad implementations of
their renderers and "out of coincidence" this reason is the same that
kind of let down the Squeezebox product range over the last years:
Software cost has to be calculated on the piece-price of the device
which is something that simply doesn't work for products which have
their functionality mainly defined through software or even backend
services.
I could no go on and elaborate for a few hours why this is also why
Apple and Microsoft make so much money but that would certainly be a bit
OT here....
DLNA will go away.
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