Access from Windows Media Player

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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OK, so the PMS DLNA server is working fine from Mediahouse and sort of from a Beyonwiz (doesn't play all media types, but it lists everything OK).

 

When I access Videos or Pictures from Win Media Player on a Win7 PC all I get is a message "Contacting the remote media library", and it never completes.

 

On the PMS the DLNA log just repeats this over and over again:

 

Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped object 88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64 to  part 0 on server
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 8 objects of 8 total
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64' with filter '*' and sort '', paged as 0 + 200
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped client to generic profile: Cache-Control: no-cache; Connection: Close; Pragma: no-cache; Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"; User-Agent: Microsoft-Windows/6.1 UPnP/1.0 Windows-Media-Player/12.0.7601.18150 DLNADOC/1.50 (MS-DeviceCaps/1024); SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1#Browse"; Content-Length: 886; Host: 192.168.1.225:32469
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped object 88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64 to  part 0 on server
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 8 objects of 8 total
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64' with filter '*' and sort '', paged as 0 + 200
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped client to generic profile: Cache-Control: no-cache; Connection: Close; Pragma: no-cache; Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"; User-Agent: Microsoft-Windows/6.1 UPnP/1.0 Windows-Media-Player/12.0.7601.18150 DLNADOC/1.50 (MS-DeviceCaps/1024); SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1#Browse"; Content-Length: 886; Host: 192.168.1.225:32469
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped object 88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64 to  part 0 on server
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 8 objects of 8 total
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64' with filter '*' and sort '', paged as 0 + 200
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped client to generic profile: Cache-Control: no-cache; Connection: Close; Pragma: no-cache; Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"; User-Agent: Microsoft-Windows/6.1 UPnP/1.0 Windows-Media-Player/12.0.7601.18150 DLNADOC/1.50 (MS-DeviceCaps/1024); SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1#Browse"; Content-Length: 886; Host: 192.168.1.225:32469
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped object 88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64 to  part 0 on server
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 8 objects of 8 total
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64' with filter '*' and sort '', paged as 0 + 200
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped client to generic profile: Cache-Control: no-cache; Connection: Close; Pragma: no-cache; Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"; User-Agent: Microsoft-Windows/6.1 UPnP/1.0 Windows-Media-Player/12.0.7601.18150 DLNADOC/1.50 (MS-DeviceCaps/1024); SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1#Browse"; Content-Length: 886; Host: 192.168.1.225:32469
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped object 88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64 to  part 0 on server
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 8 objects of 8 total
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64' with filter '*' and sort '', paged as 0 + 200
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped client to generic profile: Cache-Control: no-cache; Connection: Close; Pragma: no-cache; Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"; User-Agent: Microsoft-Windows/6.1 UPnP/1.0 Windows-Media-Player/12.0.7601.18150 DLNADOC/1.50 (MS-DeviceCaps/1024); SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1#Browse"; Content-Length: 886; Host: 192.168.1.225:32469
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped object 88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64 to  part 0 on server
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren returning success with 8 objects of 8 total
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - OnBrowseDirectChildren for '88d79be9-9512-4109-9619-b75b0352def8_64' with filter '*' and sort '', paged as 0 + 200
Oct 05, 2014 12:49:05 [0x7f6f7d8ef700] DEBUG - Mapped client to generic profile: Cache-Control: no-cache; Connection: Close; Pragma: no-cache; Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"; User-Agent: Microsoft-Windows/6.1 UPnP/1.0 Windows-Media-Player/12.0.7601.18150 DLNADOC/1.50 (MS-DeviceCaps/1024); SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1#Browse"; Content-Length: 886; Host: 192.168.1.225:32469

This goes on for hours, over and over, nothing completes, and the only way to break the cycle is to restart PMS on the server. Cancelling the request from the client appears to cancel it, but the server continues, stuck in that loop. 

 

How do I get the PMS DLNA server accessible from Win Media Player?

 
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How do I get the PMS DLNA server accessible from Win Media Player?

I dont know the answer but I changed some advanced client/server settings through the web interface and now the junk network traffic stops when I close Windows Media Player, so I do not have to restart the server anymore.  I cannot make PMS work with any DLNA client on Mac, Windows or Linux, but it does work on my DLNA TV.  I would be tempted to blame the client except that I have got them working with several other media servers, and Plex has no official support for the ability to proxy live streams for a DLNA client either (such as a TV which has no internet-enabled media player application.)  So when they call Plex "the most sophisticated DLNA server available to effortlessly stream nearly any format to your device" * I guess they are using a special dictionary with a unique definition of "sophisticated" and "effortless." :unsure:

* https://plex.tv/features

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I have to admit I figured access from Windows Media Player would work out of the box... 

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https://forums.plex.tv/topic/73702-writing-profiles-for-dlna-devices/

In the first post of the thread linked above, the Plex developer team says:

A device's friendly name, device type and other properties can be discovered using the 'Device Spy' tool from http://opentools.homeip.net/dev-tools-for-upnp

This developer tools package also includes a UPnP test application called 'Device Validator'
When I ran this application against the Plex Media Server, it reported the following errors:

  • M-SEARCH Response time not choosing Random interval based on MX value
  • One ore more NOTIFY packets were MISSING
  • Discovery mechanism is not behaving correctly

This clearly illustrates the endless looping, as the battery of tests never completes.  Of course we know its broken already, but this tool will at least provide explicit confirmation that a DLNA server is working correctly or not, with a meaningful error message which you can report to the developer.  I wonder if maybe we are not seeing more complaints about this because some versions of PMS are working correctly.  Can you tell me which CPU / OS platform your Plex server is running on?

my DLNA server log also says:

WARN - readCodecProfiles - unrecognized element MusicAudioCodec

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Hello, I have the exact sames symptoms.

Plex Media Server release 1.15.4 is running on Windows 10.

Whith another computer running Windows 10, WindowsMediaPlayer display the server but when i try to access to the movies, i got the same message: “Contacting the remote media library”.

With my SmartPhone whith BubleUpnp, using WIFI, no problem, i can list and view all the movies.

Is theres a way to investiguate more ? Is there specific logs regarding to dlna ?

My TV box (from a French internet Provider, called freebox) can not display the list of the movie too. Im almost sure that the problem is the same.

Does anyone could try to access through DLNA to a linux realease of Plex Media Server?
(just to see if its an issu due to this version ?)

Thanks for your help

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