On 28 Jan 2010, at 16:34, James wrote:
... Supposedly you can control the embedded web
browser, via the DLNA protocol.
I don't really understand this sentence.
My experience is limited to the use of MediaTomb to stream .mp3 audio
& .mp4 video files from a Linux server to my PS3 for playback, and I
believe this is related to the hodgepodge of technologies which are
loosely assembled under the "DLNA" and "uPNP" brands.
However, in that case you use a standard web-browser to configure some
options on the server, and which directories to include. Being a Linux-
based server, MediaTomb does not have any special browser requirements.
I don't understand how you would control either a web-browser, or a
web-server, using DLNA.
My understanding of DNLA from reading the wikipedia article (which may
have been posted in this thread) is that it's not a protocol as such,
but more of a "work together" certification, although a loose one. If
your DNLA amplifier has a little embedded web-server, then its web-
pages must (as I read that) be viewable in the simple web-browser
installed on a Windows CE client. This is something of a
simplification, as AIUI there can be loads of other incompatibilities
when trying to actually stream the music between devices in the home.
But I would reckon that browser compatibility is the least of your
problems.
Stroller.
