On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Gordon Messmer yinyang@eburg.com wrote:
On 01/11/2012 05:40 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I must admit I'm rather confused by UPnP.
UPnP is something completely different. That protocol allows devices behind a NAT router to request that it open a port forward to them. It is commonly used by game consoles to open the ports required for online gaming services.
It is also a subset of DLNA and was used before the DLNA standard (if you want to call it that) for media services. So much is optional in the DLNA standard that you can't count on any two things to interoperate anyway. I think most of the network media stuff is done by people who really want you to keep buying DVDs and Blu-ray discs so it is intentionally disfunctional.