KISS the Llama

LlamaKISS

This is a replacement for the media streaming software known as PC-Link, by Linksys, former KISS Technology. It’s used to send videos, music and pictures from a Windows computer to KISS digital video recorders:

So why this replacement? Because the original PC-Link software didn’t work properly after I installed Windows Vista x64. When I tried to play videos, the pre-buffering paused resulting in out-of-sync sound. Very annoying, and rendering my DP-558 somewhat useless.

So why not use any of the other replacements? The only ones I’ve found are either made in Java (JLink, Kiss Now, Open DP-500), Perl (kissntell) or isn’t made for Windows and uses Cygwin (pd500serv, kissdx). LlamaKISS is a native Windows console application written in C++ using the WinSock API.

Does it work? With Windows Vista x64 and my DP-558 it works as intended. If you have Windows XP, 2000, or another player model and it don’t, please contact me. You can help me debug by un-commenting the two [debug] settings in the LlamaKISS.ini, do some test and e-mail me the files created.

So what does it cost? Nothing, it’s free software.

Features

Installation

Download and un-zip the archive to wherever you want, preferably your Program Files directory. Edit the LlamaKISS.ini with Notepad, or alike, and add variables in the VIDEO, AUDIO and PICTURE sections to where your media is located. Run LlamaKISS.exe, use Ctrl-C to exit.

If you’re using a firewall make sure LlamaKISS.exe can accept incomming TCP connections and send/receive UPD packets on port 8000.

Changelog

Known Issues

Most of there can probably be fixed quite easily with a little help from you. Enable CommandDumpFile=LlamaKISS.log in the [debug] section of the LlamaKISS.ini, try playing a movie then e-mail me the log-file created. The file contains all the commands sent from your player to the server. With it I can see if the commands differ from what my DP-558 sends and then change the interpretation in LlamaKISS accordingly. If any of you have C/C++ experience and would like to help out, I’ll happly publish/open source the code. I’ve open-sourced it, hosted at Google code.

To do

  1. Testing with more models of KISS hardware. I would appreciate your feedback.
  2. Playlist support.
  3. Maybe make it a Windows Service to run in the background. Done!
  4. Make a true Windows application with a nice GUI. For the configuration anyway, if the rest becomes a Windows Service.
  5. Support disc image (.iso) playback. This really isn’t that important any longer since you can just map one of your VIDEO location to a virtual drive (DaemonTools) and play the VOB or TS files directly.
  6. Support FLAC playback. I’ve tried to implement this and concluded that it can’t be done without transcoding to MP3 or OGG. My DP-558 can’t play PCM samples, neither in WAV nor ASF container.
  7. Maybe integrate a KML server, if someone find it usefull.
  8. Any requests?

Download

Author

Henrik Lindqvist <henrik.lindqvist@llamalab.com>

Comments

  1. Hello

    I have a desktop PC in the bedroom [upstairs] with Window XP SP3 and connect to the internet broadband with ADDON ADD-GWAR 3550 wireless router to IP Talk Talk,

    In the livingroom [downstairs] I have KISS DP600 connected to the TV as a DVD player.

    I came across your website and found that I can wirelessly transmit from the PC to the TV which I would love to do so that I can watch the IPlayer.

    Unfortunately I'm not very clever in setting things up so I was hoping that you can provide the neccessary information on how to get it all working please.

    Thank You
    88. by David Williams on
    Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 15:09 GMT

  2. works great with my Kiss DP558 and win7 pc, 64 version as well!
    87. by Rob on
    Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 14:19 GMT
  3. Ok, I managed to compile a x64 version with VC 2008. Still testing, but here's the source and the binary (under x64 folder):

    http://www.mediafire.com/?h9hzf3tfc8q1hib
    86. by teepean on
    Friday, 25 February 2011 at 21:49 GMT
  4. Hello!

    Thanks for the great PC-link replacement. Could you compile a x64 version as well? No reason expect I like to use x64 versions and at the moment Chrome and llamakiss are pretty much the only 32-bit versions that are left.

    Thanks!
    85. by teepean on
    Wednesday, 23 February 2011 at 20:05 GMT
  5. Hallo Henrik,

    Super program! It runs like a charm as a service on Windows server 2008 standard. And thanks for the good support you gave me!

    Greetz Xander
    84. by Xander on
    Saturday, 08 January 2011 at 18:50 GMT
  6. Is is possible to add some kind of virtual directory merging?

    I mean the point, where you map a physical directory to one virtual directory for the kiss.
    Currently it is only possible to mount one directory to only one menu item. Wouldnt it be cool to map more than one physical directory to just one menu item while merging the conent virtually? Just like that, which seems to be impossible today:

    [video]
    MyVids=c:\videos
    MyVids=d:\videos


    Nevertheless, it's just an awesome program. Thank you and keep up the good work!
    83. by TopOR on
    Thursday, 04 November 2010 at 00:03 GMT
  7. Works fine: Thanks for the system-service-mode. Now I can get rid of the svrany.exe workaround I used before to get your great application work in service-mode.

    No critical bugs encountered till now since 3 years (WinSvr2003, WinXP).

    Tanks a lot!
    82. by TopOR on
    Tuesday, 02 November 2010 at 20:40 GMT
  8. Hello, is there any option to play DVDs (directory with DVDs files) with menu?
    81. by Malwen on
    Wednesday, 27 October 2010 at 21:15 GMT
  9. Since yesterday, when i use "start service.bat" I get the error-Message:
    "RuntimeException[StartService]#193: %1 is not a valid Win32-Appliocation"

    It worked fine multiple times before ... (Using Win7).

    Any suggestions? Thx!
    80. by NoBy on
    Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 11:35 GMT
  10. I use XP Pro with SP 3 and a KISS 1600. After running the llamaKISS.exe only the dir from %USERPROFILE% are shown. Other dir like z:\moviez are not shown. I get the error message: "worker 3668: class RuntimeException[FindFirstFile]#3: system canno find the path". I have no dmp-file and the LlamaKISS.log is nearly empty.
    Until now I used KISS-PC-Link 3.0.5, but since a week I only get the movies without sound to my player. I'm not sure if it is a software problem but if I start the movies directly on the PC everything is OK. So I wanted to try out your software. Can you give me a hint how to make my dir visible for the player?

    Thanks,
    Dirk.
    79. by dirk1969 on
    Tuesday, 31 August 2010 at 06:04 GMT
  11. thanks!!!! my dp500 now works with Windows 7 32bit!!
    if were there a graphic interface would be wonderful ...
    78. by liza kiss on
    Sunday, 22 August 2010 at 16:00 GMT
  12. thanks!!!! my dp500 now works with Windows 7 32bit!!
    if were there a graphic interface would be wonderful ...
    77. by liza kiss on
    Sunday, 22 August 2010 at 16:00 GMT
  13. Sorry, but the program doesn't work very well on my 2003 server and my kiss dp 1600. When playing hd content llamakiss uses the whole memory of the server. After the playing, llamakiss doesn't free up the used memory. Is that an error?
    76. by Marcel on
    Saturday, 21 August 2010 at 20:23 GMT
  14. Hi,

    Great program if i could get it working...

    Can't seem to connect to the KiSS 1600 with DHCP ON, only works with static IP.

    Now with static IP, it comes up "Network is Connected", then a few seconds later it says "Network is Disconnected", and keeps changing from one to the other.

    My IP details are showing as 0.0.0.0 even though i entered 192.168.1.5 ...

    Maybe a faulty unit?
    75. by Fran on
    Wednesday, 07 July 2010 at 00:07 GMT
  15. Excellent program. But my (second) Kiss begins to limp. I was wondering if there is any possibility to directly use the USB input of the TV / DVD with a USB print server> Lan and, of course, LlamaKISS.
    74. by Giorgio from Italy on
    Monday, 29 March 2010 at 13:51 GMT
  16. Have a look at my blogger site and I hope it will help you setup LlamsKiss. http://freecomkiss1600fanclub.blogspot.com/
    73. by barnesd1 on
    Sunday, 28 February 2010 at 12:57 GMT
  17. To Schooltje regarding media access on NAS

    I use LlamaKISS as service (XP SP3) and can play media on NAS with the following solution:

    1.) Create a network share for the NAS media folder (e.g. \\DiskStation\video\DivX) and configure access right for a given user account of the PC where LlamaKISS service is running
    2.) Specifiy the network share in the LlamaKISS.ini file as media path
    [VIDEO]
    DiskStation-DivX=\\DiskStation\video\DivX

    3.) Configure the LlamaKISS service to use the specific user credentials when starts instead of the default Local System account

    Regards,

    Gabor
    72. by haby on
    Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 23:47 GMT
  18. RE the issues regarding socket addresses, I got round it by specifying the IP address of my machine in the INI file, rather than 0.0.0.0

    i'm using Windows 7

    oh, and thanks henrik, it looks good, i was using kissnow on XP, but this is great for Win7
    does it handle Windows Media Center recordings, or is that a Kiss player issue?
    71. by andy on
    Sunday, 27 December 2009 at 22:41 GMT
  19. Hi!
    Can you add preventing from going to sleep?

    Here is some info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/629240/prevent-windows-from-going-into-sleep-when-my-program-is-running


    I tried to compile it in my Visual Studio 2008 with Windows SDK v7 and i wasnt successful :( http://pastebin.com/m22381ada
    70. by MikZ on
    Sunday, 22 November 2009 at 20:19 GMT
  20. Hi,
    can you add preventing PC from going to sleep or hibernation?
    69. by MikZ on
    Sunday, 22 November 2009 at 07:44 GMT
  21. Works for me on Winxp SP2, Kiss 500-DP
    I only found today I have to unpack AVI files to have my Kiss machine able to play them!

    Can I donate to this?

    Fast forward and rewind doesn't work for AVI files - it actually fast forwards or rewinds fine, but when I select to play again it crashes out and goes back to the file list menu.

    Thanks for the great software, very useful.
    68. by Moz on
    Tuesday, 17 November 2009 at 22:04 GMT
  22. Have to say, this is absolutely brilliant!
    Got it working with my Kiss 1600. Playlists is definately a feature i'd love to use.

    Keep up the good work!
    67. by Dan on
    Monday, 09 November 2009 at 00:11 GMT
  23. we want playlist please
    66. by mplay on
    Thursday, 05 November 2009 at 12:14 GMT
  24. Hi,
    congratulations, this useful software works perfectly with Windows 7 x64! (even as a service)

    A question: is it possible to change the server name? Now it shows my computer name...

    Thanks.
    65. by sigitm on
    Wednesday, 21 October 2009 at 07:07 GMT
  25. Hello, first congratulate you for this wonderful program.
    I use it on a PC with XP-SP3 and my DVD Player is the KISSDP-500.
    He works all right enough but the DVD drives, including
    The mounted with Alcohol 150 runs as long as SERVICE.
    If I pause the service and run the program everything works great,
    VIRTUAL (USB), DVD, CDR, ISO mounted with alcohol 150 in one unit, and so on.
    I must say that VIRTUAL work anyway.
    Progress in vidos MPG works OK.
    Progress in avi videos malfunctions, it skips to the top or hangs.
    I work in audio only com mp3 and ogg, wma nothing, no playlist.
    In video only works with my mpg, vob and avi, wmv nothing.
    Captions have not tried.
    In image only works with jpg, bmp and png nothing
    Images may be lengthened in time, 10-15 seg, too.

    I hope these details will serve to improve this project and apology that has
    to use a translator to communicate with you, thank you.

    For any check you are missing can you tell me and I'll help with
    pleasure.
    64. by zarra on
    Friday, 16 October 2009 at 22:59 GMT
  26. Could i use your software on Windows 7
    63. by Ernie on
    Wednesday, 14 October 2009 at 01:48 GMT
  27. I’ve open-sourced it, hosted at Google code. Please report any issues there, for other discussion please use the llamakiss group.
    62. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Monday, 28 September 2009 at 22:11 GMT
  28. Hi,
    Thanks for this great programme. I only recently bought a kiss 1600 to replace a broken Zyxel dma1000. I knew the Kiss had its problems with infrequent firmware updates etc but decided to go for it at the price. I dismissed the provided pc link software as being inadequate and continued to use what I was used to TVERSITY. This wokred ok for a while but then failed to play some avi files complaining of missing or bad codecs when streaming despite it being able to play on my pc. After a lot of searching I came across this and really didn't expect it to work. .....But ...knock me down with a feather if it didn't just play anything I chucked at it including all the files that wouldn't work with TVERSITY. Praise to Henrik, please keep on improving this prog.

    Thanks
    61. by timmo on
    Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 20:41 GMT
  29. Many thanks for this great program. I have it up and running on my Windows 7 EE 64 bit machine in notime. With no issues at all. My VR-558 is now finaly connected (again) to my home network.
    60. by Aladinsane on
    Tuesday, 15 September 2009 at 11:03 GMT
  30. Playing Video files works fine. However, FastForward will not increase the speed. Also, when stopping FastForward, play restarts at the beginning of the file.

    Any workaround possible?
    KiSS DP-558 with 1.1.8 Stage2 rev G
    59. by gerhard on
    Sunday, 13 September 2009 at 23:56 GMT
  31. And add on to my previous message.... I can see the files when I copy them to a local hard disk, but when I want to add a network drive (NAS) in the ini file it does not work:(
    (I have the NAS mapped with a drive letter)

    Thanks
    58. by Schooltje on
    Friday, 11 September 2009 at 11:50 GMT
  32. Hi,

    I have a DP-558 and have Vista64. So I use the service of LlamaKISS. But when I want to look a video from my pc with the KISS (TV). I only see the folders on the KISS and not the files and there are files available on the HDD of my pc.

    Does someone has a suggestion what I am doing wrong?

    Grtzz
    57. by schooltje on
    Friday, 11 September 2009 at 11:41 GMT
  33. Hi
    I Have a question..
    I have a KISS VR-558 and wounder if someone has been able to stream spotify to their kiss player?

    I have been looking around the internet and have found the following app
    http://dsbridge.googlecode.com/

    It streams the music from spotify as an mp3 stream and anyone with Logitech Boombox or other application that can listen to radio on a specific IP or Internet can now listen to Spotify. My Idea was then that this should I also be able to do with my Kiss player. I looked in the online Radio channel to see if I could connect to a specific IP adress. But without any luck.

    Do anyone here have a suggestion on how it could be done? Or could it be done in some way with the LlamaKISS software?

    To read more about the software that makes Spotify a mp3 stream you can read the following forum tread

    http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590

    Best Regards

    Viktor

    Would it be possible to run
    56. by Viktor on
    Saturday, 08 August 2009 at 20:30 GMT
  34. When I run the exe file and not as a service I get this error every 30 secs. or so:

    Worker 2028: class RuntimeException[GetQueuedCompletionStatus]#123: The semaphore timeout period has expired.
    55. by Bjarke on
    Sunday, 02 August 2009 at 12:57 GMT
  35. Hey there,

    Greets from the Netherlands
    Finally an easy to use player which can do stuff more nicer than the pc link stuff can.
    And far way easier too install:)

    Thnx man!

    Cheers,
    Gijs
    54. by teddor on
    Tuesday, 28 July 2009 at 18:17 GMT
  36. It works fine! Well done, thank you!!!

    Greetz from Frankfurt!
    53. by Cyner on
    Saturday, 11 July 2009 at 08:37 GMT
  37. great software, working well.

    Any advice how to fix Russian characters in file names ?

    Thank a lot !
    52. by master on
    Saturday, 20 June 2009 at 11:13 GMT
  38. this is a really neat tool work brilliantly on my xp :)

    only thing i think it misses is to be able to play iso as a dvd it isnt enough to be able to play vob files from the image file coz theres no subs and no correct screen size doing that :( but thats all i think the program lags ;)

    so very nice work (hope you will put the dvd iso play thingy in a future update).

    regards

    platoon
    51. by platoon on
    Sunday, 07 June 2009 at 15:23 GMT
  39. This is a very sleek program and it works great with my Kiss 1600!

    The best thing is that you can change the .ini file or add more files without restarting.


    Anybody else here with a Kiss 1600?
    My news reader (Kiss Online) (from Reuters News) does not work anymore ...
    Has Linksys canceled the subscription, or is it just me?

    Cheers,

    Andrew
    50. by Andrew on
    Sunday, 07 June 2009 at 13:33 GMT
  40. Hi, thanks for a great piece of kit. Works perfectly on my x32 Vista installation, and my XP sp3.

    Is there a possibility of getting matroska container support?

    Otherwise, great work.

    -a-
    49. by testdummy on
    Tuesday, 02 June 2009 at 21:15 GMT
  41. I've been testing your program for a long time now but haven't used is because it couldn't run as a service. Now it can and it works perfect :-) Thanks a lot. I have a KiSS DP-600 and runs Vista x64 - just works
    48. by søren on
    Friday, 10 April 2009 at 23:10 GMT
  42. This probably means that another service or application is already listening on port 8000. Find out which service/app and stop it. Possibly got PClink running? Or something like: 8000/TCP,UDP iRDMI (Intel Remote Desktop Management Interface)[39]
    8000-8001/TCP Commonly used for internet radio streams such as those using SHOUTcast

    Type "netstat -a -b" in a command prompt (cmd) to view the ports and processes listening on it.

    47. by Nebiros on
    Wednesday, 08 April 2009 at 20:44 GMT
  43. >Error 10048: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.

    Me too..

    Win XP SP 3 Home Edition
    Firewall disabled
    46. by Kim on
    Sunday, 29 March 2009 at 12:04 GMT
  44. Does anyone recognize the following message, this message occurs when I start the service of LlamaKISS.


    ---------------------------
    Services
    ---------------------------
    Windows could not start the LlamaKISS service on Local Computer.



    Error 10048: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.


    ---------------------------
    OK
    ---------------------------

    45. by schooltje on
    Wednesday, 25 March 2009 at 20:48 GMT
  45. Thank you for this great program!
    I am using this app with great pleasure in combination with my KISS 1600, the app is much better than the PC-link rubbish.

    Configuring the ini-file is very easy to do, a GUI would be nice but my oppinion is that people using a Kiss-player with the Llama app are more users than the standard and a GUI is not the highest priority.
    I've had some problems with the KISS locking up after playing some files, or skipping fwd or bckwd. A full reboot of the Kiss is the only solution to solve it. But since the last release, when it started to run as a service, the problems stood out. If they return I will notify you. Maybe i can make dmp-file as well to help you.

    Request: Playlist files support. I've tried to add .m3u files to the AUDIO-formats in the .ini but this didn't work. I've thought that m3u playlist are supported by the player, but I am not sure.

    Request: mkv-support. I am not sure this is possible, it think you will walk to the same boundaries as you did with FLAC.

    Thanks for a wonderfull program and keep up the good work!

    Greetings,
    Nebiros
    44. by Nebiros on
    Sunday, 15 March 2009 at 09:24 GMT

  46. New version available; v1.1.0

    It’s finally a Windows Service.

    43. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Monday, 09 March 2009 at 23:18 GMT
  47. hyy,
    need help:) i just bought 2 pcs kiss dp-1504 and didnt got the pc link cd:((((. I'd like to connect my kiss with my pc via router. can any1 can help me and advise me what to and how 2 do??? I'll really thankful.
    Is this LLamalab is a program that i can use insted of pc-link?? if yes how and whwere I can download it??
    br.
    42. by nine on
    Sunday, 22 February 2009 at 09:43 GMT
  48. Great program, much better than PC-Link.

    I am now coming across many more files that just won't play on my DP-1500 - do you have any idea why this might be?

    (Using mpegmodifier to unpack bitstream does not fix it)
    41. by wisdenb on
    Saturday, 07 February 2009 at 00:59 GMT
  49. At last I find a solution for the Vista problem on my Linksys Kiss 1600....try everything, until LlamaKISS...It's easy...and it's genious....Now can i use my Linksys Kiss as on XP...When I change to Vista...the problems start...I could onle see 5 minutes of the movie...then it jump over to the next moviefile. But with LlamaKISS...everything is OK Thank you for an great software
    40. by Happy man on
    Monday, 02 February 2009 at 23:49 GMT
  50. Amazing!!!
    Thank you for a great program!
    The only one capable to stream HD over wireless...
    I wish you success and Good Luck
    39. by Sergey on
    Monday, 26 January 2009 at 21:00 GMT

  51. New version available; v1.0.11

    Fixed an issue with DP-508 where streaming would fail to start. Thanks to Mandrade!

    38. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Friday, 02 January 2009 at 14:20 GMT
  52. Hi.

    First of all thanks for making this program!

    buuuut....

    After I installed Vista 64bit my DP-1600 player only plays snippets (It will only play the files for some minutes, then it skips to the next file) of the files using Kiss PC-Link.

    I thought that this program would fix that, but the problem continues. It's kind a frustrating, and I'm thinking of going back to XP. Don't know if that'll fix the problem though.

    Anyone else have this problem or know of a fix?
    37. by kjartan Haavik on
    Sunday, 28 December 2008 at 18:14 GMT
  53. hi,

    thanks for your work but i cant get it to work.

    DP508+stage2FW+vista32

    i can see dirs but when i press PLAY i only get a black screen... :(

    any clue?

    cheers... Mandrade
    36. by Mandrade on
    Saturday, 27 December 2008 at 12:26 GMT
  54. Kiss DP500 with the latest firmware update..
    cant recall version-number, but its an old player and it hasnt been updated in ages..
    anyways..
    your program seem to work..
    i get a connection, i find the video-files in the video folder, but i am unable to play them off.
    the server gives me the following error message:
    Worker 4240: class RuntimeException(FindFirstFile)#3: The system cannot find the path specified.

    any hints to why would be greatly appreciated..
    35. by Øyvind on
    Sunday, 14 December 2008 at 16:22 GMT
  55. Here:
    Kiss-1600
    WinXP

    Thanks a lot for this great software!

    Works like a charm, uses few resources and nor restart is need if directory contents changes.

    Well done!

    Cheers from London
    34. by Joe on
    Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 11:16 GMT
  56. Hello,

    I've tried LLamakiss on a Win xp sp3 laptop (wireless) with kiss dp-600 and it runs fine. The Kiss dp-600acted good with a wired cable (Netgear N router, 1 gb).
    Kiss wireless is real bad.
    But it gave real hope for connecting also my MS homeserver and it turned out great. I was able to view movies, pictures and sound just as intended.
    With the homeserver mediaplayer software i've never had good results, next to this it broke every once and a while due to firewall stuff, services not running etc. So i'm really happy with LLamakiss. My wish would be indeed a real background service that i could install on the homeserver that would kick off at starting it. So thanx a lot
    Emile
    33. by Emil on
    Wednesday, 12 November 2008 at 19:40 GMT
  57. Nice work,

    works flawless on with Win2008 server and my Kiss DP1600. Streaming H.264 wireless without any interruption! (try that with kiss pc-link :-))
    BTW, anyone with a DP1600 should try NewArtRiot Rips... Fantastic HD quality.

    Grtz,

    32. by Kozze44 on
    Tuesday, 11 November 2008 at 15:34 GMT
  58. My player is a KiSS 1600. Since it can read pcm and wav files, would it be possible adding support to flac files without transcoding? that would be great!

    Thankx

    Tiago
    31. by Tiago on
    Sunday, 09 November 2008 at 12:08 GMT
  59. Hi.

    Can I retrieve recordings made to the Kiss DV recorder and edit them in my PC?

    Thanks for your help

    Pedro
    30. by Pedro Tavares on
    Tuesday, 28 October 2008 at 10:57 GMT
  60. LlamKiss v1.10.0 worked fine on my WinVistaSP1

    anybody managed to have USB playback on Kiss DP500 without streaming from PC?
    29. by harufu on
    Monday, 29 September 2008 at 16:12 GMT
  61. Disc image (.iso) playback would be the feature I'm looking for
    28. by kaak on
    Thursday, 18 September 2008 at 10:53 GMT
  62. I'd also love to have it as a service
    27. by Purdy on
    Wednesday, 10 September 2008 at 21:40 GMT
  63. Hi There

    It works like a charm, and I can even view non compressed vob files over the network now.... GREAT!!!

    One minor thing to improve, could be to make it possible to use different audio and/or subtitles.

    Purdy
    26. by Purdy on
    Wednesday, 10 September 2008 at 21:25 GMT
  64. Gread Job, Working really well
    Just make it service Please!! interface - dosen't really mater, but service is really inportant..

    Thanks for product!!
    25. by Vanger on
    Thursday, 28 August 2008 at 00:27 GMT
  65. Has to be vr-558 instead of vr-588 (silly me)


    Regards

    Maverick
    24. by maverick1976 on
    Friday, 15 August 2008 at 08:15 GMT
  66. Hello,

    Kiss vr-588 (300GB) and Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit.
    Videos and music are on an external disk connected via USB to the pc.

    And works great... thank you

    Keep up the good work

    Regards

    Maverick
    23. by maverick1976 on
    Friday, 15 August 2008 at 08:09 GMT
  67. New version available; v1.0.10

    Fixed an issue with DP-1500 where audio streaming would fail to start. Thanks Ivars!

    22. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Tuesday, 29 July 2008 at 19:28 GMT
  68. Works superbly on my DP-600!! Thanks! :o)

    There's a very minor issue I've noticed (using XP). The program crashes, bringing up the usual Windows "send error message" dialogue sometimes when using CTRL-C to exit it.
    21. by Mark on
    Thursday, 10 July 2008 at 14:39 GMT
  69. New version available; v1.0.9

    Small fix with huge implications, that seems to solve the directory and file not found issues introduce in version 1.0.7. Thanks again to Fred.!

    20. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Saturday, 31 May 2008 at 15:59 GMT
  70. New version available; v1.0.8

    Fixed issue where media files wouldn’t play on some DP-600. Thanks Fred. for you help!

    19. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Friday, 30 May 2008 at 20:22 GMT
  71. Hi,
    It doesn't work for me ...
    my config consists in Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 + Gb network + DP600 (firmware KNAS) + HD TV.
    Kiss sees the server, the directories and files but when i try to read those files i get an "unknown Codec" error message on TV.
    Same files shared via PCLink are OKs.
    Regards.
    Fred.
    18. by Fred on
    Thursday, 29 May 2008 at 08:50 GMT
  72. Kiss 1600 Player
    Vista 32 Bit

    First of all, nice work :)

    My player can find the directory, but can't seem to find any files.

    Error message:
    Worker 3468: class RuntimeException[FindFirstFle]#3: The system cannot find the path specified.
    17. by Shwing on
    Sunday, 11 May 2008 at 19:49 GMT
  73. If you have problems using LlamaKISS, please e-mail me instead, I’ll gladly help you.
    16. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 16:15 GMT
  74. Cant get it to work have altered ini file to correct path and the server appears in the KISS menu but the list of movies is not displayed any thoughts please anyone??
    15. by cssmrsmith on
    Tuesday, 08 April 2008 at 18:52 GMT
  75. Hello Henrik,
    the programme works nicely on my VR558. The option to play DVDs from the computer does not work properly (the picture is distorted), but there does seem to be some contact to the computer's drive.
    Thank you very much for a very good programme (I have been using EZLinkNG) that seems to work seemlessly with Windows XP.

    Cheers,

    Karsten
    14. by Karstenp on
    Tuesday, 08 April 2008 at 17:21 GMT
  76. Hello Henrik,

    Thank you for this program, I'm looking for this program for a year, same problems as everyone with Kiss link & Vista. I installed the LlamaKISS.exe and programmed the LlamaKISS.ini, so I can find my divx video's on my pc. Problem is that when I select one to watch, the Kiss DP1500 sais: "File not found! Please verify the path to the file, Current path is: VIDEO\DIVX VIDEO\(movie name).avi.

    Do you know what is wrong?

    Best regards

    Frank from Holland
    13. by Frank on
    Sunday, 06 April 2008 at 08:29 GMT
  77. Hello Henrik,
    Thank you for this new release !

    The problem I was talking about in the message #3 of your page is still here : each time I want to watch a video via LlamaKISS, I MUST reboot my Kiss DP 558 (its not necessary to listen music). I can watch several videos in a row. But when I stop LlamaKISS and run it again, a reboot is necessary.
    Do you have an idea how I can solve it ?
    Thanks for your help !
    12. by Marc on
    Thursday, 03 April 2008 at 04:49 GMT
  78. New version available; v1.0.7

    Now allowing multiple locations for each media type.

    11. by Henrik Lindqvist on
    Wednesday, 02 April 2008 at 23:54 GMT
  79. Hi.

    A friend of mine wrote a very similar program back in 2004
    It's very basic, but worked very well for it's intended model (dp-500)

    Quoted from his website.:

    A short list of features (it really does not have many):

    * Installs and runs as a service on the Windows NT and XP platforms (dp500lnk.exe -i)
    * Easy to remove (dp500lnk.exe -r)
    * Just edit the .ini file and it will mount your library and provide a LIVE view (no caching)
    * Generates a list of "Recently Played" files (both Audio and Video)
    * Preserves the lists (over reboot/shutdown)
    * This feature can be enabled and disabled in the .ini file
    * You can cap the maximum number of items in the list
    * Can run as a console application, it really must (dp500lnk.exe -c)
    * Requires a very modest footprint on your harddrive (less than 400K)
    * Very conservative on memory usage (approx. 3 MB)
    * Very low impact on your processor (super light)
    * Update [July 10 2004]: Represents Winamp (.m3u) playlists as a


    As with llamaKISS my friend didn't provide sources for his program
    but I think you should write him about it.

    At writing moment the link for the binary on his site is broken.
    I've written him about fixing that.

    http://www.joergensen.net/index.php?section=39

    I'm unsure if it will even work with todays players, but I thought it was
    worth a comment being so similar to LlamaKISS.

    Good luck, I hole he used C++ and will share his install as service, and
    playlist handler.

    /Nick
    10. by Nick on
    Wednesday, 02 April 2008 at 08:51 GMT
  80. Thanks for your work, its working great on WXPSP2 and the KISS VR558, would be nice if ithey could adress more dir of the mediafiles.
    Good work
    9. by pctrasher on
    Saturday, 29 March 2008 at 09:01 GMT
  81. I have installed the program and my Kiss displays all my movies in the specified directory but when I want to play a movie the Kiss does not do anything:(
    8. by schooltje on
    Friday, 28 March 2008 at 06:54 GMT
  82. I tried it out with my KISS DP-600 and it just worked. Vista Ultimate 64-Bit. Thanks and I'm looking forward to new features :-)
    7. by Soren on
    Wednesday, 26 March 2008 at 19:04 GMT
  83. No funciona con vista ultimate 32bits da errores constantes!!
    6. by Lincoln78 on
    Monday, 17 March 2008 at 15:03 GMT
  84. I just installed but I didn't use it yet, one of the missing features for the kiss media center sofware is to rename/delete files from kiss, is it possible to add this feature into LlamaKISS?

    Ciao
    Marocco
    5. by Marocco on
    Thursday, 13 March 2008 at 09:19 GMT
  85. Err...
    I did not reboot my DP 558 - I had lost this reflex ;-)
    And now : it works !
    Great ! Thank you very much
    4. by Marc on
    Wednesday, 12 March 2008 at 20:08 GMT
  86. Hello,
    I was looking for a such tool since I've installed Windows Vista on my PC in january 2007 ! I was no more able to read video files on my Kiss DP 558
    :-(
    That's why I was very happy to find your LlamKiss.
    I have tested it tonight but unfortunately it seems not work for me :
    - I see the PC directory tree from kiss
    - I load a video and the counter climbs to 100%
    - and...nothing more

    I've tried many video files and I(ve got the same results.
    Could you help me please ?
    Best regards !
    Marc
    3. by Marc on
    Wednesday, 12 March 2008 at 20:01 GMT
  87. Muy amables
    2. by lincoln78 on
    Friday, 07 March 2008 at 16:35 GMT
  88. hello
    1. by johnart on
    Wednesday, 05 March 2008 at 01:19 GMT

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