I'm using MC18 (18.0.146) as a central DLNA music server build on a small WIN7 system. The library keeps mainly mp3's (320kbps) some flac and m4a files. For play back I use several network clients around my house (Denon AVR 3313, Asus netbook, Roku Soundbridge, ...) connected over WLAN.
Last week I integrated a Raspberry PI, a small Linux box running Debian Wheezy and Gmediarender (gmrender-ressurec). This configuration provides a UPnP/DLNA renderer and has a USB DAC headphone Amp (Audio-GD Fun) connected. For those are interested, details on the setup can be found here:
http://blog.scphillips.com/2013/01/using-a-raspberry-pi-with-android-phones-for-media-streaming/Sound ist perfect and every device can be easy controlled with JRemote. Now the problem!
If I shutdown/boot the Raspberry or just stop/start the client-sw gmediarenderer MC hangs up ?. This behaviour does not occur if I restart one of the other clients. After I've stopped gmediarenderer the device disappear in the list of available renderer in MC18 on the server and there is no further impact on the server functionality. But after gmediarender is started on the Raspberry client, the list of renderers on the server is updated but it's no longer possible to select the device for play back (neither from JRemote nor direct on the server) or to select other functions on the server side. I Have to close and restart MC server to come to normal operation.
It seems to me that MC does not clean up some internal buffer or something in this direction. Any idea to find a workaround or to fix the problem?
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Topic: DLNA Server hang up on restart of DLNA renderer (Read 2105 times)