I'm back.

I spent a bit of time offline.

Largely due to work and also I just didn't have anything useful to post.

In the last few months I've re-started and re-written my microkernel. This time I re-designed the architecture and put some more thought into it. Now it supports device drivers, alarms, timers and pre-emptive scheduling. It even has a few syscalls already.

The idea is to progress it far enough to support a bit of newlib.

I'd also like to get it ported over to ARM and getting running on some hardware.

More to follow.

Panasonic BDT210 DLNA Working, Finally.

I recently purchased a new Panasonic BDT210 Bluray player. It's fantastic. It does 3D (not that I have a television to support it) and plays everything and sound great.

However. I tried to fire up the DLNA Client with my Twonky Media Server. Fail. Even setting it to the correct profile didn't seem to keep it happy. I placed the ffmpeg binaries into c:\ffmpeg and enabled transcoding on the web server. Still, nothing.

Then I found Serviio (http://www.serviio.org)

After binding it to the correct port and giving it a reset, the player saw it. Then, I set the profile to the 'Sony Bravia' and enabled transcoding on both cores.

Tada! Serviio has ffmpeg built-in and does the transcoding to MPEG2 which is what the Panasonic BDT210 supports. I imagine with enough tinkering this would also enable you to do the same with TVersity or similar but Serviio just worked straight out the box.