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UPNP / DLNA (client) player recommendations?

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http://askubuntu.com – Since neither VLC stable / VLC nightly builds / Totem with Coherence Plugin work properly in oneiric I'm searching for an alternative to watch media streamed from my seagate dockstar using minidlna as a server. The only client that works is XBMC, but that's much of an overkill and stops me from doing other tasks. Atm I'm working around this with samba shares, but it baffles me that both a Playstation 3 and Windows 7 Laptop work better together with my debian based media server than my linux desktop in this regard. (HowTos)

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I've installed minidlna from a .deb that was recommended because oneiric's apt's minidlna apparently doesn't work. This problem persists with either installation method.

I have two DLNA servers, one that came built into my router (SSID_MediaMover) and the other is my server running minidlna (JBs DLNA server). The former shows up on a PS3 and the latter doesn't.

I have been trying for a week to get a DLNA/UPnP Media Servers to work properly on my headless Ubuntu server. I started with minidlna and PS3 Media Server, but had trouble configuring them and could not get either one to transcode files so they could be viewed with a Sony Blu-Ray player (BVD-E770W).

I have been enjoying the minidlna server on my ubuntu box for a while now. It works very well with XBox and a cheap magnavox blue-ray player that I bought. Now I am wanting to start uploading media to my server but when I try my devices all come back with the error that uploading is not supported.

Is there a way to stream the live output of the soundcard from our 12.04.1 LTS amd64 desktop to a DLNA-compliant external device in our network?

I have installed minidlna on a Raspberrypi with an external hard drive. Everything seems fine. Playstation 3 recognizes the DLNA service. But when I try to find it with Amarok 2.5.0 on Linux Mint 13 Maya (Precise) there are no results.

Do I need any additional packages installed to activate DLNA client support on my Laptop?

I have two DLNA servers, one that came built into my router (SSID_MediaMover) and the other is my server running minidlna (JBs DLNA server). The former shows up on a PS3 and the latter doesn't. The closest I can get to seeing a difference is by mounting them with djmount.

Howdy Fellas,

I'll try not to be too wordy...

Want to get my openSUSE 11.2 (fresh install) laptop to see my network shares ...not to be a server or share any files. I've looked at 50 websites and everything seems to be "server" and "share" oriented. Maybe I (newb) am confused by the terminology...

PS3 Media Server, a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server that was originally written to support the PlayStation 3 and which now includes support for smartphones, televisions, music players and more, is at version 1.71.0.

Unlike the previous version, which had quite a few changes, PS3 Media Server 1.71.0 only brings a few updates.

Highlights of PS3 Media Server 1.71.0:

• Android.conf video supp

I have miniDLNA installed on a server. Is there a way to access the files in Rhythmbox using a plugin maybe? Or is there another media player that has this functionality built in?

Thanks