Playback from Twonky Media Server

[mackowiakp]

Does anybody use any audio/video/photo playback on M3 with Twonky as DLNA server. I use Twonky to stream content to Samsung Smart TV`s, Android based devices. So i want to playback the same content on M3 base computers. Is any possibility to configure any player as DLNA player. XBMC is for example UPnP but no DLNA. Any idea how to configure XBMC, TOTEM or any other as DLNA client?

[djennings]

vlc has a upnp plugin that works very well with my DLNA media server. Just install the plugin and then open the vlc playlist window.

BTW do not forget to disable your firewall if you have one.

[mackowiakp]

Hmmm. I try to use VLC buid-in "searcher" of plugins but it did not found any "dlna" or "upnp" plugins.
And under View --> Playlist -->Local Network there is not "Universal Plug’n Play" option

[isadora]

But, you should first install vlc-plugin-upnp, as djennings already stated.

[mackowiakp]

THX. It helps. Partially. It is necessary aprox 10 min (!!!) for VLC to read the content stream-able by Twonky. My collection is about 2k films, 10k photos and 20k audio files. Why VLC needs so much time to "know" what Twonky can stream? Samsung Smart TV or Android based devices get the content just "on click"..
So maybe another player?

[mackowiakp]

SoI try TOTEM (Video Player). In cooperation with coherence it discover content of DLNA server just "on click". But two problem exist:
- how to obtain and install codecs for typical video formats
- no photo (jpg) playback at all, but subdirs are discovered.

Any idea?

[mackowiakp]

There is the answer from VLC developers, why it takes 10 min to work with Twonky. UPNP plugin is buggy. Look at the post:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php ... 54#p380454

So - what about Totem? How to equip that player with necessary set of codecs?