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DLNA/Remote Access Help Needed
dtc:
159 seems to stop the random crashes - I have run for 40 minutes using a library and audio files on the remote laptop and I also ran 40 minutes using the library on the remote laptop with the audio files on the network. Current configuration that works is a laptop with a local library accessing audio files on a networked server and acting as a DLNA remote, directing output to a Netbook DLNA player. I will keep testing it.
I still need to work on using the DLNA remote to load a DLNA library from the player, with audio files on the player and having the remote direct the output to the DLNA player. Question? In that configuration (if I can get it to work), does the audio file stream to the remote and then stream back to the player, or is DLNA smart enough to know that the audio file is on the same system as the player and allow the access to all happen locally? The later is my goal, if possible. Then I really do have a system that acts only as a remote without moving the audio files between systems, somewhat like Webremote with do with V 15, but maintaining the nice MC interface on the remote.
Thanks for your help.
docles:
--- Quote from: docles on March 26, 2010, 02:16:18 am ---It seems that I am in the same situation.
1. I have a server (windows home server) where all my music files are located, with JRiver (14.155) running. The files location in JRiver are network path type (//SERVER/MUSIC/xxx). JRiver on the server is dedicated to 2 tasks : Library server and DLNA server (all the 3 dlna boxes are ticked)
2. I use a laptop to control everything with JRiver (14.155)
- the library is loaded from the server
- the renderer can be seen in the playing device list (DLNA control box ticked)
When I try to request the renderer to play a file from the laptop controlling, I get an error message saying "this feature requires a DLNA server to be running. Please enable a DLNA server in Options > DLNA".
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Same problems with JRiver 15 (15.012 on both server and laptop).
BR
Docles
dtc:
With 159, I ran for mutiple hours without any crashes. I did occassionally find that during pauses between me selecting tracks, the remote went back to outputing to zone 1, but selecting the player zone sent output to the player without issue. So, 159 seems to have fixed the random crashes. Unfortunately, somewhere along the upgrade path, my M2Tech Hiface stopped working in Exclusive mode and the sound became distored. I ended up going back to 155 and have exclusive mode back, after re-installing the HiFace driver.
Still, my preference is to have the audio files and library on the same system as the output device and to have the player recognize that the audio files are local to the player and not transfer the audio data to the remote and back to the player. Is there a way to do that? I think that WebRemote does that on MC 15, but without the MC interface. It would be nice to be able to use a remote PC running MC without the data having to be transferred to it. Is there any way to do that? Can that be added to WebRemote?
Thanks.
Tom
JimH:
--- Quote from: dtc on March 29, 2010, 01:43:27 pm ---Unfortunately, somewhere along the upgrade path, my M2Tech Hiface stopped working in Exclusive mode and the sound became distored. I ended up going back to 155 and have exclusive mode back, after re-installing the HiFace driver.
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Build 140 of the Hi-face firmware was known to work. Build 141 did not.
dtc:
I am using 140, not 141.
Tom
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