[NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare

[Bobby Wrenn]

George Lass wrote:
> --- On Fri, 10/16/09, Bobby Wrenn <bobby at wrennest.com> wrote:
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>> From: Bobby Wrenn <bobby at wrennest.com>
>> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare
>> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
>> Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 10:39 AM
>> George Lass wrote:
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>>> --- On Thu, 10/15/09, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net>
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>>>> From: Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse
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>> MediaShare
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>>>> 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
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>> serve up
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>>>> media to my UVerse set top boxes.  Of course
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>> AT&T's
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>>>> help page says you need windows media player 11 to
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>> do
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>>>> this.  I'm wondering if anyone has found a
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>> Linux based
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>>>> server to do this, and if so, what is it and are
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>> there any
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>>>> gotcha's to look out for.
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>>>>> I don't know for sure, but one of the reasons
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>> why I
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>>>> won't do UVerse is
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>>>>> because I've been told that everything is
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>> completely
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>>>> proprietary.
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>>>>> Somebody else PLEASE say it isn't so
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>> though...
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>>>> A little reading leads me to believe that the
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>> MediaShare
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>>>> feature is 
>>>> based on UPnP but that there may be some Microsoft
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>> embrace
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>>>> and extend 
>>>> going on that prevents it from being used with
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>> other UPnP
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>>>> servers.  At 
>>>> the very least, it is probably only going to
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>> support WMV
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>>>> codecs anyway.
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>>> I think you might be correct about some non standard
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>> 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.
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>>
>> Bobby
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> I'm a bit confused here.  From what I have seen on the Uverse forums, some people have been able to use TVersity rather than WMP 11.  Isn't TVersity essentially a UPnP server?
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> Thanks,
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> George
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I am not familiar with TVersity. I do know we use Windows Media Encoder 
all the time to push to UVerse.

Bobby