4/17/2023 0 Comments Serviio linux mint![]() ![]() So win7 has - dnla server & dnla control pointīoth a server software and a control point The instance where this might not be true is the play to featureĪnd that’s because the play to feature is not a server feature, it’s a control point featureĮssentially microsoft has included a basic dnla control point In most instances, my opinion is that it does everything win 7 media player can do and more Well first off, dnla server software available in linux is very robust Now, Twonky also makes server software, and I have a free version of their server on my laptop I have played with, and they also sell a full version called Twonky Server that might be useful for you. It so happens I can (by using either my Apple or Kindle tablets) send stuff from my PC to the WD this way to my TV and stereo, as well as access from a server device I have called a Pogoplug, that btw happens to run on Linux. The apps see DLNA servers and not network shares. Gee, John, why didn’t you say this in the first place! You can do this with your phone or tablet with an app called Twonky Beam or others with similar capabilities, Belkin has a derivative app of Twonky Beam called MediaPlay that uses a different interface you might prefer better. When I do, I will return the knowledghe to as many forums as I can, as this issue is on many ! I am determined to get this sorted, don’t care how long it takes. I find it so much easier to navigate my (huge) music collection on the laptop screen and the “search” facility is so much eaier than faffing about on an Andriod phone screen (plus the transcoding issue). I just want to sit, with my laptop on my lap ( ) and simply click on a file and have it play out of the WDTV box, into my (Dennon/Tannoy) amp & speakers. Partially because, as you say, the WDTV has limited decoding (flac/ape and some vid types) whereas “pushing” files from the computer allows transcoding. I can use tthe WDTV remote to “pull” files from the Linux laptop (ETC) but this is not what I want. ![]() I can also see simple NFS shares from the WDTV box. I can “see” the server software on both the WDTV box and the Android phone. I do have “media server” software on the Linux machine and it is working. In this case, you would need to add a server software to the Linux system. So, my question to you is: can you access your Linux computer via Media server, and if so, use that, and if not, it confirms the Linux PC does not have built-in server capability as Win 7 does. I learned long ago that Play To and media servers of WD are different sides of the same coin, so when I want to send/push I do it from the WD and not the PC (as long as the PC folder I am acccessing is shared). It also would seem to me that instead of generating the “send/push” command from Play To, or from the Linux system, the same thing could be accomplished using the Media server access via the WD’s menu. Thanks for looking as they difference between pushing DLNA content via Win 7 Play To and a Linux system (and I know nothing about Linux, so I am guessing here) is that Win 7’s Play To is a server software, meaning it sends decoded media data to the WDTV, the WDTV does no decoding and only passes on decoded info the Win 7 sends, and perhaps Linux does not have an equivalent decoding-server capability. This seems to be a common question from many Linux users out there according to the hours I have spent trying to find out how to do it ! If anyone can, they will make a lot of folks happy. Is there any chance anyone on here can give a solid, easy to follow solution ? (pref one that does not involve a lot of Terminal commands ) Having done a lot of research I have tried “Serviio” and some other media servers (so many I forget their names !) but I have got nowhere I would love to be able to do the same with my Linux (Mint 13) laptop. I can even stream to it with my Andriod phone, using apps called “BubbleUPNP” and “Connected Media” ie I can use media stored on my laptop and directly “stream” it to my TV via thw WDTV Live box via Windows Media Players “play to” (dnla compliant device) service. With Windows 7 the “play to” function worls fine. It is “seen” (and can “see” shares) on both my Windows PC and my Linux (Mint13) laptop. UK and new here so hope you don’t mind me jumping in with a tricky question.įirstly, me WDTV Live is working fine and is correctly networked via my router. ![]()
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