Amiga & DNLA for Set top box?

[Tension]

After reading this thread http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37049

Is there any way to use an Amiga as a DNLA client?

Possibly an A1200 in a slim case with a NASplayer MP3 dongle thingy and that old IR sensor from CU Amiga about 10 years ago??

Hmmmm.....  Might make one of those...

[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.

[Tension]

alexh wrote:
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!

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.

RE The PCMCIA Card.  I wonder if ribbon cable with PCMCIA connectors has ever been made.  That would be handy!

[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.

[rkauer]

Tension wrote:
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RE The PCMCIA Card.  I wonder if ribbon cable with PCMCIA connectors has ever been made.  That would be handy!

 Nope. Two solutions:

 - Buy two right angle PCMCIA adaptors (from Elbox, ~50Euro each - ouch!)

 - Dessolder the original PCMCIA connector and straight their pins and re-solder.

[Trev]

Re: DNLA, they have a Value Proposition published on their web site. That alone is reason enough to steer clear.

[Tension]

Trev wrote:
Re: DNLA, they have a Value Proposition published on their web site. That alone is reason enough to steer clear.

Sorry Trev, just read this http://www.dlna.org/industry/why_dlna/value/ but don`t really see anything wrong with it.  Doesn`t seem to have any negative impact on Amiga systems.

What am I missing?

Cheers.

[Trev]

I was joking. Terms like Value Proposition don't really have a place outside marketing and management.

[Tension]

Trev wrote:
I was joking. Terms like Value Proposition don't really have a place outside marketing and management.

Ha ha sorry mate.  :-D

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

No messing about with `Samba` needed.

An Amiga client would be nice...  Maybe a server as well (though transcoding would not be an option)


Any coders about??

[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??

[Trev]

I still swear by Cloanto's Amiga Explorer. While not 100% in the Windows shell extension department--e.g. F2 doesn't initiate a rename, it doesn't fail gracefully on connectivity errors, that sort of thing--it still kicks all kinds of ass and is a snap to get going. I'm especially fond of the transparent access to ROM and disk images.

But yes, tech like UPnP would be fun on the Amiga, although as previously noted, what would you implement and where? There's likely nothing on the Amiga itself that would take advantage of it.

Not related to DNLA, but I can see value in a library and Prefs interface for Bonjour/mDNS.