Digital Living Network Alliance is an organization which manages a set of guidelines/standards for multimedia streaming.
Digital Living Network Alliance is an organization which manages a set of guidelines/standards for multimedia streaming.
Questions tagged [dlna]
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How do I connect VLC to a known DLNA server?
I have VLC on my Mac and would like to connect to a DLNA server on my LAN but the server isn't showing up in VLC's UPnP auto-discovery UI. Given the IP address of the server how can I point VLC to it explicitly so it can be 'discovered'?
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What is the difference between DLNA and UPNP?
Can someone tell me the what is the difference between DLNA and UPNP? I can see that some device (such as NASes) specifications mention both (e.g., Iomega StorCenter) or only DLNA (e.g., Netgear Stora).
Are these synonyms for the same thing or are…
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Windows 8 DLNA streaming of MKV files
I have a Samsung TV that is capable of playing MKV files. The Windows DLNA Play To menu that appears when you right-click a media file does not support MKV files, but a simple trick has been to change the file extension from .mkv to .avi so the Play…
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UPNP/DLNA music player for Windows?
I'm looking for a UPNP/DLNA Client for Windows.
The server is MediaTomb on a Ubuntu box.
The clients are Windows (any, XP and up).
I'm looking for a simplistic music player program but failed to identify any.
I'm hoping for something in the style of…
DM8
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Is it possible to push multimedia content on DLNA TV from Linux?
On Windows I loved the "Play To" function included in Windows Media Player to push content to my Samsung TV.
But now that I am on Linux I don't know how to do the same thing. I found how to setup a DLNA server and retrieve it's content from the TV…
user132421
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How to play movie with subtitles using DLNA server?
Is there possibility to play a movie with subtitles using DLNA server?
Or only solution is to hard-code subtitles into a movie?
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Is it possible to stream Windows desktop apps to a DLNA TV?
Is there any way (hardware or software) to stream the actual Windows desktop to a DLNA TV? I know you can stream certain media files (and this is working fine) but I would need to stream normal Windows applications to a remote TV via the local…
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How can I stream a game through VLC to my TV?
Is there a viable solution that can stream live input from PC games such as Left 4 Dead to the TV, possibly using DLNA?
I've found a lot of streaming hard- and software, but they're all about sharing movies and photos. This thread even concludes…
Cees Timmerman
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How to make playlists for DLNA players?
One thing I noticed when I setup my DLNA server (minidlna on Debian) is that the protocol supports creating playlists. I would like to take advantage of it. My questions:
What format does the playlist need to be in?
Where must the playlist file…
Canadian Luke
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Live screencasting from a Windows PC to a DLNA-enabled TV - possible?
We're looking to buy some LCD monitors to be used as dashboard displays in the development offices around here at work. Primarily they will display information from a PC directly connected via HDMI or VGA. However, an awesome use case would be where…
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How do you add new folders to be shared from Windows Media Player 12 via DLNA?
I'm using Windows Media Player 12 as a DLNA server in Windows 7. When I add new files to my %USERPROFILE%\Videos directory, they show up on my DLNA clients just fine.
However, I've tried adding new folders to the Videos Library by clicking on the…
Luke
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Is there a simple command line UPnP AV Control Point?
I am looking to implement a Glorified Internet Picture Frame at work. The goal is to show a 4k picture on our wonderful 4k television, with all pixels intact, from a network-accessible source which is on the company network. I don't want the…
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Linux DLNA Server
I have just recently set up a DLNA server on my GNU/Linux desktop at home. I am using PS3 Media Server to do the job. I like it a lot so far, but I was curious about whether or not it is the best solution. To you, what is the best DLNA server for…
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Emulating a Chromecast on a Windows desktop
I am aware of the settings that allow Windows Media Player to become a DLNA receiver and the ability enable UPnP on Kodi (which is my current setup).
What I would like to do is have the native support that Android provides when casting to (from…
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Route Windows 8 sound to DLNA device
Is that possible? Maybe some drivers exist that add DLNA device as Windows sound card? One possibility that I found:
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-upnp-dlna.htm
It says: PC Sound Card Streaming
But it is in payed version only and I don't know how…
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