OK, latest news... Yes, it worked by mapping a drive letter instead of using a UNC path. But it's still not perfect...
Songs stop after while on their own. The symptom of the WD HD TV Live box is that it halts and skips to the next track. It's random where they stop, it can be after a few seconds or it can be a minute or two. But it's always in the same place for each song. I was suspecting my PC - it has a gigabit network card in it but it blew during an electric storm 2 months ago and I replaced it with a cheap one, however I don't think I'm getting good performance out of the new one, it's quite dismal in fact. Perhaps it was too cheap! So maybe its network is dropping out. So I decided to install Squeeze and Whitebear on my second PC which is more modern and fast and has a decent network card... Initially, songs wouldn't play at all until I copied lame.exe into the Squeeze program directory. That's odd - isn't that only needed if there is transcoding?? All my files are MP3s and the media box supports MP3s. However they are variable bit rate - I wonder if that makes a difference? Anyway, I got that working but I had exactly the same symptoms on this PC. The same songs stop in exactly the same place. These MP3s play perfectly on the WD box via the UPnP server in my NAS unit. It's really weird isn't it! Seek also doesn't seem to be implemented yet in Whitebear? I can't fast forward or rewind. Back to the original PC, and the software control points, using the Intel Media Renderer... foobar2000: Can select an item to play on the renderer but it doesn't start. eezUPnP: Discovery works but cannot browse. Intel controller: Discovery doesn't work. Cidero: Discovery & browsing works (although strangely, the Artist menu isn't populated, only the Albums menu), can play an item on the renderer and it plays through to completion. So this is the only combination that works so far for me! -- csimon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ csimon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40283 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80632 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
