[NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare

[George Lass]

--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Bobby Wrenn <bobby at wrennest.com> wrote:

> From: Bobby Wrenn <bobby at wrennest.com>
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse MediaShare
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 10:39 AM
> George Lass wrote:
> > --- On Thu, 10/15/09, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net>
> >> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] AT&T UVerse
> MediaShare
> >> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> >> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 9:59 PM
> >> Chris Cox wrote:
> >>     
> >>> George Lass wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> I am interested in trying to use Linux to
> serve up
> >>>>         
> >> media to my UVerse set top boxes.  Of course
> AT&T's
> >> help page says you need windows media player 11 to
> do
> >> this.  I'm wondering if anyone has found a
> Linux based
> >> server to do this, and if so, what is it and are
> there any
> >> gotcha's to look out for.
> >>     
> >>> I don't know for sure, but one of the reasons
> why I
> >>>       
> >> won't do UVerse is
> >>     
> >>> because I've been told that everything is
> completely
> >>>       
> >> proprietary.
> >>     
> >>> Somebody else PLEASE say it isn't so
> though...
> >>>       
> >> A little reading leads me to believe that the
> MediaShare
> >> feature is 
> >> based on UPnP but that there may be some Microsoft
> embrace
> >> and extend 
> >> going on that prevents it from being used with
> other UPnP
> >> servers.  At 
> >> the very least, it is probably only going to
> support WMV
> >> codecs anyway.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >>     
> >
> > I think you might be correct about some non standard
> Microsoft extension to the UPnP standard.  I installed
> a fuppes UPnP server, and my set top box couldn't even find
> it, let alone complain about codecs etc.  Of course
> since I don't have any other UPnP clients to test it with,
> it might not be configured correctly anyway.
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
> >
> >   
> I don't think UPnP has anything to do with the windows
> media push to the 
> server. I have set up systems with nothing but a Windows PC
> and Windows 
> Media Encoder. All the necessary settings to push content
> to UVerse are 
> in Windows Media Encoder. I have also done it with
> applications written 
> with the WM SDK.
> 
> 
> Bobby
> 


I'm a bit confused here.  From what I have seen on the Uverse forums, some people have been able to use TVersity rather than WMP 11.  Isn't TVersity essentially a UPnP server?

Thanks,

George