There is a pay “pro” version, however, this version doesn’t have any features that are particularly useful to me, so I’m using the free version. Servio is another free cross-platform uPNP/DLNA server. Specify the folders containing your content, and pretty much leave everything else alone – worked for me. You can then pretty much follow your nose from there. Just point your browser to port 30888 on the machine you installed tvmobili on. So open /etc/init.d/tvmobilisvcd in an editor, and replace this line:Ĭonfiguration is pretty straightforward. However, this command is not available on OpenSuse, instead they use the startproc command. The init script supplied starts the daemon using the daemon command. There is a bit of a trick when using this server with OpenSuse. The packages also install an init script to easily start the server as a daemon. deb packages for easy installation on most mainstream distributions. Installation is relatively straightforward. Configuration is done through a web interface, so tvmobili can be used on a desktop or a headless server easily. At this stage, I’ve only been using it for a few days, so I haven’t had to pay to use it yet. It seems you can either pay a small monthly fee to use it for that month, or a one off fee to have unlimited streaming “forever”. Anything over that, and you need to pay to use it. You can then stream 10GB of video per month free. It has an interesting payment model – the first month of use is free. Tvmobili is a cross platform uPNP/DLNA server which works well with Samsung TV’s, as well as a number of other devices. Then download the latest ps3 media server from here. Your distribution should provide the necessary packages. Anyway, into it:įirst thing is to make sure you have a working JAVA runtime. There are a number of options for doing this, but the standard ones didn’t seem to work that well on my setup, so I had to get creative. The main one being getting the thing to run as a daemon. However, for me, and my headless server, it poses a few problems. This is fine for windows users, who would generally run a server with a GUI. PS3 Media Server is written in java and is GUI based. However, it has been adapted to operate with a number of different renderers, including Samsung TV’s. PS3 media server, as the name suggests, is a DLNA server focussed on the PS3 as a DLNA renderer. So having given up on mediatomb, I turned to ps3 media server. Having originally written this article based on PS3 Media Server, I’ve since also discovered other cross platform servers that work well with Samsung TVs – tvmobili and serviio – so I’ve updated this article to cover that as well. Not very helpful for their customers who run Linux, OSX or have a NAS appliance. Rather than supporting the standard, they have written and support their own Windows only DLNA server. Sadly, Samsung seems to have not implemented the DLNA standard in a sane way, and despite following a number of guides on I found on the internets suggesting sending custom http headers to the TV, I could not get mediatomb to play nicely with the TV.ĭon’t start me on why Samsung can’t make DLNA work properly. I already have mediatomb running on my headless file/mail/web/whatever server, so I thought I’d be all ready to go. Having just bought a Samsung ‘Smart’ TV, I was very keen to take advantage of its built in DLNA media renderer. Launch Virtual Apps Directly from your Linux Desktop.
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