UPnP software for implementing MultiRoomAudio.

Requirements

General Requirements

• Multiple Renderer support
• Synchronous Renderer control

Servers

[MediaTomb][3][?][3]

• http://mediatomb.cc/
• album art and movie thumbnails as transcode script

Fuppes

• http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/

uShare

• http://ushare.geexbox.org/

Renderer-Controllers

Linux

No good [UIs][4][?][4]?

• Totem
• Rhythmbox
• djmount

Both need an extra plugin.

Android

UPnP Monkey

• Multiple concurrent streams
• Issues with UTF-8 names?

Bubble UPnP

• Transfer playback
• Only one stream at a time
• Advertising

[PlugPlayer][5][?][5]

• Only controls one renderer
• Expensive

Slick UPnP

• Didn't find any servers

Renderers

XBMC

• Works reasonably well.

PS3

See PS3

• Why transcoded audio doesn't play on PS3
• Won't play media of unknown length (streamed audio, AVI)
  • Transcode to mpeg2 video can work
• Plays video/mpeg
  • <map from="vob" to="video/mpeg"/>

N770

See N770

• Media Streamer app
• Plays transcoded audio
• Needs upgrade to [OS2007][9][?][9] to play streamed video

Links

• List of UPnP AV media servers and clients