[NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare

[George Lass]

--- On Thu, 10/15/09, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:

> From: Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net>
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 9:59 PM
> 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.
> 
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I think you might be correct about some non standard Microsoft extension to the UPnP standard.  I installed a fuppes UPnP server, and my set top box couldn't even find it, let alone complain about codecs etc.  Of course since I don't have any other UPnP clients to test it with, it might not be configured correctly anyway.

George