Amiga & DNLA for Set top box?

[alexh]

You want a DLNA client ported AmigaOS 3.x? WTF for? Every DLNA server usually has SAMBA too.

I can imagine someone *maybe* wanting a DLNA server for AmigaOS (a port of GeeXbox or something) but a CLIENT?!?

With an A1200 you've got to have a PCMCIA ethernet card sticking out 3 inches out the side of the case!

You couldn't stream most data a DLNA server/client supports because of insufficient bandwidth.

There are much better applications the remaining Amiga hackers can port.

[alexh]

Tension wrote:
But DLNA is `Plug and Play`, as it were.  Thus it could connect to anyone`s setup without any configuration.  That`s what I thought, anyway.

But you still need to setup TCP/IP stack (Miami/Gensis/AmiTCP etc) & Router (if your router doesn't support UPnP and believe me, not all do! At least not correctly).

SAMBA needs very little work once set up.

[alexh]

Tension wrote:
What I mean is that I can plug my PS3 into my PeeCee and it just works straight away with WMP11.

I understand, but all it does is eliminate an easy one-off setup. I am pretty much sure it does this by relying on an underlying OS software technology not present in Amiga network stacks.

Tension wrote:
No messing about with `Samba` needed.

Messing about?

On the windows side:

A one off setup of Explorer -> Tools -> Map Network Drive -> network share.

Then every other time, just click on network drive letter in explorer.

On the Amiga side, a one off entry of the M$ domain / workgroup.

Hardly messing about??