MiniDLNA
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Most Helpful Positive Review
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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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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Everything works fine except mkv files cant able to recognize [Avatar] 2012-02-25 02:06:59 PST I'v success fully installed Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.24 [SQLite 3.7.3] on my WBL NAS. I could able to watch avi, mpeg without any problems. But I can't see ..MKV files and are not showing on my SAMSUNG UA55D7000. Any workaround would be highly appreciated My USER-AGENT: DLNADOC/1.50 SEC_HHP_[TV]UA55D7000/1.0 Any help would be appreciated
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I bought the router / modem functionality included with dgnd3700 ReadyDLNA, I have a major problem folder view of all available TV (UE32C6510 Samsung, Sony Bravia KDL-26EX320). In practice, the TV's DLNA receiver does not receive the correct data on folder on the external drive connected to the USB port of your router. Negative Findings, I hope in a firmware update the router.
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On TV SAMSUNG UE40B7000 doesn't work bookmarks.
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I downloaded for my samsung tv and I could'nt play movies , pictures neither music! as well than mediatomb.... just have to set up windows for using pc share manager.... or find the good way...