[NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare

[Stuart Johnston]

Chris Cox wrote:
> George Lass wrote:
>> I am interested in trying to use Linux to serve up media to my UVerse set top boxes.  Of course AT&T's help page says you need windows media player 11 to do this.  I'm wondering if anyone has found a Linux based server to do this, and if so, what is it and are there any gotcha's to look out for.
>>
> 
> I don't know for sure, but one of the reasons why I won't do UVerse is
> because I've been told that everything is completely proprietary.
> 
> Somebody else PLEASE say it isn't so though...

A little reading leads me to believe that the MediaShare feature is 
based on UPnP but that there may be some Microsoft embrace and extend 
going on that prevents it from being used with other UPnP servers.  At 
the very least, it is probably only going to support WMV codecs anyway.