erland wrote: > Thanks for the information, it's good to know that the UPnP standard is > prepared for it. > Now I'm just getting a bit worried the music industry will ensure we > will end up with something like HDCP that causes even more struggling > and incompatibilities for end consumers. > > Do you know if the music industry is working on agreeing regarding this > and apply it to their UPnP solutions ? > Do you know if streaming providers such as Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and > similar are involved ? > > This got to be a problem also for video, we are getting more and more > commercial online streaming services for video which also currently > seems to be mostly built on proprietary solutions instead of using UPnP. > I'm thinking of Netflix, Hulu, Voddler and similar services, they > currently don't use UPnP, do they ? > > From my perspective this incompatibility with online streaming services > is a lot bigger issue for UPnP than gapless playback and synchronized > playback between different rooms which is often brought up as the main > arguments against UPnP. Gapless playback and synchronized playback > between different rooms might be nice, but I'm pretty sure they are not > critical features for 80% of the users, support for online streaming > services on the other hand is going to be very critical functionality > for most of the users.
Here is the UPnP forum membership list: http://upnp.org/membership/list/ -- I don't see any media companies (except possibly Sony). Here is a quote from the UPnP AV Architecture document: > The UPnP AV Architecture was explicitly defined to meet the following > goals: > - To support arbitrary transfer protocols and content formats. > -To enable the AV content to flow directly between devices without any > intervention from the control point. > - To enable control points to remain independent of any particular > transfer protocol and content format. This allows control points to > transparently support new protocols and formats. > - Scalability, i.e. support of devices with very low resources, > especially memory and processing power as well as full-featured > devices. > - Synchronized playback to multiple rendering devices. > - Access Control, Content Protection, and Digital Rights Management > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
