apocryph.org » vlc http://apocryph.org Notes to my future self Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:09:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 UPnP AV Support (Or Lack Thereof) in VLC Player http://apocryph.org/2007/09/15/upnp_av_support_or_lack_thereof_vlc_player/ http://apocryph.org/2007/09/15/upnp_av_support_or_lack_thereof_vlc_player/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:03:16 +0000 anelson http://apocryph.org/?p=475 Lately I’ve been trying to find a better solution to my video watching system. Currently I have a 19″ LCD monitor in my bedroom, hooked up to a laptop on my WiFi LAN and running Windows XP. When I want to watch a video file I manually start it playing, then recline on my bed. This sucks for a few reasons:

  • Requires manual playing of each video
  • Doesn’t remember where in a series I left off
  • Downloading additional video content is a multi-step process involving my dedicated torrent machine, my NAS box, and my video player box
  • It’s not the slightest bit cool

My ReadyNAS NV+ NAS box supports UPnP AV, so I already have a MediaServer machine exposing my videos. I had heard somewhere that VLC Player supported UPnP streaming, so I looked into it.

First off, the pre-built binaries have no_ UPnP support. They have Zeroconf and some other technology I’ve never heard of. Second, you can supposedly enable UPnP support with the --enable-cyberlink config option when building from source, assuming you download the latest CyberLink for C++ package. Unfortunately, I could barely get VLC compiled without CyberLink (I had the same issue as there guys, and that French prick in the forums is no help at all), and I had absolutely _no luck building Cyberlink for C++ myself on Cygwin. From this thread I conclude the UPnP support is either totally broken or buggy.

Dammit. Are there any free/open source UPnP MediaRenderers out there?

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