Dish Network Hopper

[highflyer]

Any chance of getting a renderer for the Dish Network Hopper and Joey system?

Thanks!

[SubJunk]

We can try with your help I did a quick Google and found a lot of posts saying that no media servers work with the DNH, are you sure it supports DLNA?
If it does support DLNA, you should get an "unrecognised renderer" in your list on the main UMS window

[bjprice4par]

Hey subjunk....I am interested in a dish network hopper/joey renderer as well. I would love to help you out anyway that I can. I have tried current builds of PS3 media server and universal media server with mixed results. Some file will play and some will not. It does find an unknown renderer upon startup. Please let me know what information you would need to move forward with this....this would be great!

[zinc]

This is from PMS
[New I/O server worker #1-6] Media renderer was not recognized. Possible identifying HTTP headers: User-Agent: Linux/#1_SMP UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50 XiP813_DVR/0000

[JesseWV]

I've been able to stream to the Hopper with Mezzmo. I'd love to get UMS working. What information do we need to get started on a profile?

[JesseWV]

This thread has been inactive for almost a year. I would really appreciate some help from those who have better knowledge of the .conf file and creating a new one. I am certain there are thousands of Dish Hopper/Joey users out there who would love to use UMS instead of expensive and less configurable alternatives.

I've been working on a .conf file for the Hopper/Joey system.

Here are the issues I'm having:

1. It seems to play MKV files but stutters. How do I fix this?
2. AVI files show up as "?" and can't be opened. How do I make it transcode them to a compatible format/container?

Info I've found about supported formats:

Containers and codecs supported in video files:
Containers – MKV, MP4, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS
Video codecs – MPEG2, H.264
Audio codecs – AAC,ALAC, AAC_PLUS, AC3, MPEG, FLAC, WAV, LPCM
STB side play lists – ability to queue up and play in sequence
Audio files supported:
MP3 all bitrates and VBR/Non VBR
Non DRM AAC and ALAC audio file support (iTunes files)
AAC,ALAC, AAC_PLUS, AC3, FLAC, WAV, LPCM
Server side play lists (shuffle songs, jump to a different song)
Image formats:
JPEG

uPnP Device Spy "Get Protocol Info" returns:

video/mp2t video/MP1S video/mpeg2 video/mp4 video/x-matroska
audio/mpeg audio/mpeg3 audio/mp3 audio/mp4 audio/mp4a-latm
image/jpeg

In the .conf file I have:

# Supported video formats:
Supported = f:mpegts|mpegps v:mpeg2 a:aac|ac3|mpa|wav|pcm m:video/mp2t|video/MP1S|video/mpeg2
Supported = f:mp4 v:h264 a:aac|ac3|mpa|wav|pcm m:video/mp4
Supported = f:mkv v:mpeg2|h264 a:aac|ac3|mpa|wav|pcm m:video/x-matroska

Full .conf file:

Dish-Hopper.conf

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Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

[valib]

There is an error in your config file

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Supported = f:mpegts|mpegps	v:mpeg2		a:aac|ac3|mpa|wav|pcm		m:video/mp2t|video/MP1S|video/mpeg2

It could be

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Supported = f:mpegps     v:mpeg2|h264   a:aac|ac3|lpcm       m:video/mpeg
Supported = f:mpegts     v:mpeg2|h264   a:aac|ac3|lpcm       m:video/mpeg

Also delete

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# FIXME: Remove these two lines when the supported definitions are functioning properly
MediaInfo=false
StreamExtensions=avi,m4v,mkv,mov,mp4,ogg,rmvb,xvid,hdmov,hdm,flac,fla,dts,asf,asx,m2v

and set MediaInfo=true

[JesseWV]

Thanks for the feedback. I made the changes you suggested. I also had to change "CreateDLNATreeFaster" to "false" because after setting MediaInfo=true it took forever to read directories.

I am now getting thumbnails for the AVI files (most are XviD) but when it attempts to play the file it immediate skips to the next file. Attached is the debug log. I'm guessing it has something to do with:

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DEBUG 2014-01-09 17:48:07.579 [Thread-37] Pes packet len too large ( >100Mb). Bad stream or invalid codec speciffed.

What now?

[88irocvert]

Did you get this solved? I have similar issues and have failed miserably at configuring the renderer file.

[mezlo]

Thanks for sharing your config file. While I don't have any AVI files to test, I have been able to view photos, listen to music and play MOV, MP4, MPG and WMV videos without issue.