remotely send video file to renderer

[twenger]

Does anyone know if it's possible to send a command to the ps3mediaserver which tells it to play a specific video on a specific renderer?

This is my setup:

1) Linux operating system running ps3mediaserver.
2) Video files which are stored on the linux box.
3) A "WD Live" media player which I stream videos to from the Linux box.

I am not a big fan of the WD Live interface and would like to program my own local website which will allow me to click on a video of my choice and then send it to the render-er (WD Live). If anyone can help me get started on this path I would much appreciate any guidance. I know I'll probably have to tap into the dlna and direct commands, but not sure how or where to start. It would be nice if I could use Python or Java to possibly do these things on the server side.

Thanks!

[meskibob]

IIRC the DLNA protocol requires the client to handshake, so unless you can control the WD live remotely as well, I don't think this will be possible.

[chocolateboy]

It's possible with some devices, but PMS has no support for it:

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extr ... ed-tv.aspx
http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live- ... td-p/11163

If you want to experiment, it would need to be implemented as a pms-mlx plugin. This could allow you to (e.g.) right click on a file in the file browser and select a menu option that sends it to the Digital Media Renderer.

[meskibob]

Learned something new (although I slightly remember reading this before)
According the DLNA website the WDTV Live supports both DMP (player = what PMS supports) and DMR (renderer = can push content to it). But as chocolateboy said, PMS has no support for it currently, although I don't see why it couldn't be possible in the future, provided there's somebody that actually wants to implement it and handle the massive scope change.
Edit: chocolateboy's mlx plugin idea sounds like a good place to start.

[twenger]

Yeah, you guys are right on the DMR compliance.

I've been able to use AllShare from my Samsung Galaxy phone to push videos directly to the WD box from the phone.

[twenger]

You gotta admit it would be pretty sweet to have multiple boxes around the house and the ability to operate them remotely from one source