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Thanks for the update Ron

I am happy to host it temporarily elsewhere if you want?

Would anyone know how to add multicast streams to the the sources of the DLNA server?
(incoming MC is a linear TV stream from the network that I want to get on a DLNA TV)

In reading this post I am trying to figure out what I need to do.... I went to the directory listed in the original post and don't know what to download...... or where to put the downloaded files when done .... any push in the right direction would be awesome.

Hi Casey see Ron's reply page #4

Nick did it manually over here

Hi All

Does anybody know when the "new" miniDLNA will be available?
I see the new source code is there that include all the updates.

I have tried to compile, but as a newbie i get errors that i have tried to resolve without success.

"/mnt/HardDrive2/Working/minidlna/minidlna$ make
./genconfig.sh
make: *** [config.h] Error 1

ERROR! Cannot continue.
The following required libraries are either missing, or are missing development headers:

libavcodec libavformat libavutil libflac libvorbis libogg libid3tag libexif libjpeg libsqlite3"

Looks like your trying to build from source Leon? you'll need to get hold of all those audio/video codecs and lib's for it to work, that's where the headache begins! you can find most by running 'yum search packagename' and then 'yum install packagename' but some you may have to find elsewhere (such as DAG or EPEL or other EL5 compatible repo's)

Thank you Tim

I have used the one that is on the site, but i have connection stability issues.
I keep on losing the link between my Samsung 46LC650 and the ClearOS server

UPDATE - 2010/08/21
I found it... was my 3Com switch that was blocking multi-casting. Enable multi-casting and it works like a dream. This was my original fault as well... my 3Com switch actually has a learning function and that is why it started to work, the learned settings are NOT stored so on loss of power, when i did some maintenance... these settings are gone.

It is called - "RTFM" Read The F*** Manual.


Hi All

Can someone please assist me?
I have a network, with ClearOS as a Gateway, set-up as per layout attached:

It is all working well except for one issue??? - PS> I have tried a wired connection.. same problem
I cannot get the DLNA / Upnp service to work on my ClearOS server. The basic system is as follow:
• P4 – 3Ghz, 2 Gig Ram
• My server has two NIC’s, one to the router, eth0, and one to the home network, eth1.
• I have three hard drives
o SDA1 is the operating system only – 200GB
o SDB1 is for Videos and Pictures only – 1TB
o SDC1 is for Music only – 500GB

My TV detects any Windoze device immediately as soon as they connect to the network and I am able to play the shared media from these devices, but I am not able to see the shared folders that I setup via FlexShare and in the miniDLNA config file, see below. I used miniDLNA Ver. 1.0.18 released 2010/07/22
“# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200

# network interface to bind to (this is the only interface that will serve files)
network_interface=eth1

# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
# can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=P,/mnt/HadrDrive2/Pictures
media_dir=V,/mnt/HadrDrive2/Videos
media_dir=A,/mnt/HadrDrive3/Music

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=Zodiac Server 01

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=www.mylan/index.php

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=30

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1”

I have even gone and did a clean install, and updated to ClearOS-V5.2.
If someone can point me in a direction where I can snoop on the network to do some fault finding or have a solution to this I shall be very grateful.

Well it's been a little while and Justin Maggard now hosts a source tarball and static binary. So, i've packaged up minidlna_1.018 from the source you can now install MiniDLNA using an RPM

Setup the community repo via the instructions HERE


Then edit the config file /etc/minidlna.conf, change the interface you want it to listen on, and the directory you want it to server media from.

When finished start with 'service minidlna start'. I've tested with WMP11 and my PS3 both work well with pictures and music...not tried video

Ron if you still read this thread, my source is here if you want to improve it or hack it for other distro's
ftp://starlane.gotdns.org/source/minidlna-1.0.18-3.clearos.src.rpm

Hi all...

I've been searching all DLNA topics in this forum, I've managed to install and configure it, but there is issue that jammed in my mind, how to run a DLNA from client side.
sorry if my question is stupid, because I am still new in this.
Thank you.