uPNP vs SMB?

[mckeerc]

Mabye this is a dumb question but I have a Synology DS 207+ that has a uPNP/DLNA server built in. I've never really used it as my samsung tv's DLNA client is just plain moronic in it's lack of ff/rw/pause suport over DLNA but now that I have a Boxee I wonder if there are pros/cons of accessing content via uPNP or SMB. Both seem to work fine for initial testing but I surely haven't spent hours comparing.

Anybody have some facts/opinions?

Thanks

[Rustycar]

UPnP/DLNA delivers higher performance compared to SMB which may be useful if reading from media over wireless but the Boxee Box works better if you feed it a SMB media source for thumbnail generation/media cataloging/organization and so forth.

Incidentally trying to add anything other than the root Diskstation title of the Synology UPnP/DLNA server can crash the Boxee Box or cause it to reboot when I tried it out with mine.

[DrMosh]

Incidentally trying to add anything other than the root Diskstation title of the Synology UPnP/DLNA server can crash the Boxee Box or cause it to reboot when I tried it out with mine.

Exactly what happens on mine, only not with every directory.
I can add the films and TV directories just fine (although they fail to scan and get caught on a reset loop when left sitting on the home screen, I guess this is a known problem), but when I add my pictures directory (which is pretty large, ~30gb of pictures in many directories) I get an instant reboot. Highly annoying.

It does work using SMB though

[mckeerc]

UPnP/DLNA delivers higher performance compared to SMB which may be useful if reading from media over wireless but the Boxee Box works better if you feed it a SMB media source for thumbnail generation/media cataloging/organization and so forth.

Incidentally trying to add anything other than the root Diskstation title of the Synology UPnP/DLNA server can crash the Boxee Box or cause it to reboot when I tried it out with mine.

Thanks for the feedback. My BBox seems to be OK. I only have 3 uPNP shares. Music,Movies,Photo so I was just browsing that to do what I wanted.

Question on the indexing. Does the synology media server need to index the content for boxee to see it? Synoindexd is just plain awful. It's super slow and constantly has issues indexing my media. Which is one downside to uPNP but it plays great.