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I've been using miniDLNA with my Bravia TVs for 4 years now. It does what it should, and my TVs play well encoded media with no issue. It's a small memory footprint server that will run well on low-end devices like a NAS or an old PC. What does it do: It presents and plays back media based on what your device says it supports via DLNA (which may be different from what it supports via USB!). It supports music playlists What doesn't it do? It doesn't fix the poor DLNA implementation on your other devices. It doesn't transcode. It's not developed to do this by default, so it's up to you to ensure that the media you serve to your clients is capable of being rendered by your clients. It doesn't (generally) support client specific features (e.g. 'what's new', or bookmarks) It doesn't allow subtitles on clients that don't support them. If you wants subs in this circumstance, then burn them into your video or use a different server that transcodes (e.g. Serviio, or PS3MS) It doesn't allow seeking (FF/RW) on videos that were either poorly encoded, or encoded to be very small in size (i.e. by massively reducing the keyframe rate). Most issues you will encounter with miniDLNA will be caused by either your client, or your media. With well encoded media, even the most recalcitrant of media renderers (Bravia 5500 range, I'm referring to you!) can be made to playback 24 fps 1080p video.
Most Helpful Negative Review
it is a nice tool, but il fails displaying images thumbnails when its not embedded in exif jpeg files. That is a major drowbacks, when you decide to look at your photos sets on TV and keep smaller files on the server (for multiple target: smartphone, tablet, tv ...and for fast browsing) or retouched versions. And most of images coming from he web does not contain thum preview in exif data. As a result, the thumbnails are not displayed by minidlna on samsung tv series . Windows7 is able to render thumbnail on these tv, even for image not containig exif thumbnail. Do you plan a fix to get rid of this on the fly or during scan process and store thumbs somewhere in database?
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Minidlna is perfect! Thanks.
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Stupidly simple, easy and very effective for my needs. If I can set it up in minutes, anyone can! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Very useful. Thanks.
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I wanted a UPnP media server to stream music to a Naim ND5XS and tried out several UPnP media servers running on Ubuntu Linux. Overall I tried XBMC, Serviio, and PS3 Media Server and MiniDLNA. The only one that was really satisfactory for me was MiniDLNA. Advantages: - Works reliably with my Naim ND5XS and Naim n-Stream. - Good music browsing. - Easy to install and fully integrated with Ubuntu. - Easy to configure. - Relatively simple - it just works (more complex alternatives have more to go wrong)
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Thanks for Minidlna, it's excellent!
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I searched for a reliable DLNA server with a small memory footprint to run on my NAS (with only 256 MB memory) mainly to serve my video collection. This program fits my requirements nicely. It is much faster and more reliable than the Java-based media server, I used before, especially for large directories. And once you find out how to write nfo files, you can even make the video collection look nice. On the downside, the automatic synchronisation does not work perfectly; it does not rescan nfo-files if they are added later or changed, you have to touch the video file. If you change many files at once the synchronisation may miss some files. Album arts for video directories (e.g. for TV series) do not work (this maybe a problem of my TV or of DLNA in general). And sometimes my TV repeatedly crashes when I enter a specific directory, but this could also be a bug in my TV. In that case it may help to copy the files in a new directory and remove the old one. If you look for a small and fast DLNA server, then, in my opinion, minidlna is the best choice.