[vdr] Re: What about UPnP AV ?

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:11, Jan Ekholm wrote:

> At the moment there is stuff missing. There is standardization work
> going on for handling timers, but nothing is yet finalized. Recordings can
> be viewed just like and other videos. I've seen nothing related to editing
> (but I tend to skip much of the stuff on the UPnP mailing lists) and EPG
> is currently not handled properly. TV broadcasting with all that it brings
> along wasn't considered for the first versions of the UPnP AV standards as
> far as I can see, it all has been added later.

Just like everything else then =) I think of the DVB spec with 'bolt ons' like 
AC3 audio stuffed in private streams, and similar hacks =)

So for the moment as a 'VDR Client' it might be best to leave UPnP on the long 
finger for a while, I think =)

Cheers,
Gavin.