Home Network Streaming for Dummies?

[skeptic Mike]

(15-03-2021 18:01)simoncn Wrote:  

(15-03-2021 16:45)skeptic Mike Wrote:  If you are connecting your Raspberry Pi to your receiver via HDMI, then the Pi is the renderer, This is what you would expect to use if you were streaming Audio and Video that your receiver didn't support. Obviously you wouldn't be using MinimServer in that case.

Is this obvious? MinimServer could run on another machine (or even on the Pi itself) and stream to a UPnP software renderer on the Pi that sends audio to the DAC using HDMI, if there is such a UPnP software renderer. Perhaps upmpdcli can do this.

I think that it is obvious that you wouldn't be using MinimServer as a UPNP Video server. I'll clarify my original reply later today.

Mike