Connecting UPnP devices
UPnP is an open standard that have been implemented by many media devices. It's designed to require zero user configuration. You simply connect the device to your home network; it should know how to communicate with other UPnP enabled devices on the network.
However, today's home networking system still requires some level of technical skills to setup and configure correctly, there are many elements involved, including different standards, components, and firewalls. Any incompatible element can prevent UPnP from functioning correctly. To diagnose the problem, you will need to first make sure your home network is setup correctly, and test with known working devices, and change one variable at a time to troubleshoot the problem. Test with wired connection first, then go wireless. Often you need to disable firewalls temporarily to eliminate uncertainties. Just make sure you turn it back on when finish.
UPnP A/V standard is a powerful yet simple standard to allow media server and client to communicate with each other. However, it does allow certain flexibility in its implementation, so not all UPnP media server and client are created equal.
TVedia implements both browse and search functions specified by UPnP. When browsing media through music, music video, movie, and picture areas in TVedia, TVedia's UPnP client sends search requests to UPnP servers on the network, and combines the results received into a single result list. So your UPnP server needs to support search functionality. On the other hand, you can always browse content on UPnP server using TVedia's Browse File pages.
If you are running TVedia's UPnP server on Windows 2000, make sure all media files imported reside on local machine; otherwise, accessing these files from a UPnP client may fail because the Local System account TVedia UPnP server runs in may not have proper network credentials to access the files.