Streaming to UPnP clients

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June 9, 2011 01:03 PM

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AdmiralP

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PogoPlug provides Media streaming capability to XBox360, PS3 and Seagate Freeagent devices.

I have been able to configure my Panasonic TV (TX-L42E30B) to access media streams. It happily works with Windows Media Player on my PC, but only has linited success with my PogoPlug. The TV can see the PogoPlug as a media server, but it appears to have a couple of linitations - (1) it can only retrieve/display 40 folders/files from any catefory, and (2) it does not display track duration, etc for music . (When the TV accesses media via Windows media Player, the 40 folder/file linit does not exist and all track data is displayed)

It would be very good if PogoPlug's streaming to UPnP clients could be enhanced to work fully with other devices beyond the XBox, PS and Freeagent.

Adding the ability to fully work with a wider range oif devices would make PogoPlug more attractive to (potential) customers.

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Dangsu

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November 28, 2011 2:20 PM

I Agree!
Have just installed pogoplug biz and get my upnp device to play the audio from the pogoplug... am disappointed..

tizzo

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February 17, 2012 7:21 AM

I'll second this. I don't know what it is about the UPnP implementation you're using that restricts access to a handful of devices. But my Sony HDTV is a UPnP device and like the original poster, it recognizes my PogoPlug as a streaming server. I can view by file system organization, or by (for music), artist, album, track. I see all directories no problem, but no files. And I see all artists and albums, but no tracks.

Especially since this was an advertised feature when I bought my device two years ago (they used to advertise it as able to stream to DNLA-capable devices, not strictly to a couple of devices - something that presumably was changed because of complaints like this). Unlike then, DNLA-capable TVs are now everywhere. If you could get this to work it could be a huge feature.