[NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare

[Bobby Wrenn]

George Lass wrote:
> --- On Thu, 10/15/09, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> George Lass wrote:
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>>>> I am interested in trying to use Linux to serve up
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>> 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.
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>>> I don't know for sure, but one of the reasons why I
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>> won't do UVerse is
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>>> because I've been told that everything is completely
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>> proprietary.
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>>> Somebody else PLEASE say it isn't so though...
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>> 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.
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> George
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I don't think UPnP has anything to do with the windows media push to the 
server. I have set up systems with nothing but a Windows PC and Windows 
Media Encoder. All the necessary settings to push content to UVerse are 
in Windows Media Encoder. I have also done it with applications written 
with the WM SDK.


Bobby