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Digital Living Network Alliance is an organization which manages a set of guidelines/standards to enable sharing of digital media between multimedia devices, including multimedia streaming.

Digital Living Network Alliance is an organization which manages a set of guidelines/standards to enable sharing of digital media between multimedia devices, including multimedia streaming.

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How do I set up live audio streams to a DLNA compliant device?

Is there a way to stream the live output of the soundcard from our 12.04.1 LTS amd64 desktop to a DLNA-compliant external device in our network? Selecting media content in shared directories using Rygel, miniDLNA, and uShare is always fine - but so…
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What DLNA server to choose?

What DLNA server program should I choose and how do I set it up? It is an absolute requirement that it doesn't take a lot of resources since it will be running on a 500 MHz machine. There seems to be quite a few server programs and I don't have any…
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How to set up a DLNA server on Ubuntu 14.04?

I've tried a few DLNA servers (including MiniDLNA, uShare, MediaTomb, Rygel), but none of these works as expected. The problem with MiniDLNA is that most of the shared content simply didn't appear on the TVs list or if they appeared the TV couldn't…
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Vlc not finding any UPnP devices

I have a minidlna server running in my home and everything worked fine when i updated to ubuntu 16.04 my vlc stopped finding my server. I ran VLC via terminal and got this error when clicking on the UPnP tab. : [00007fdb784db098] upnp services…
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DLNA client for music

Is there a way to listen to DLNA server music from Ubuntu? It seems redundant to me to have full-scale library based music software on the computer while there is already library based solution in the media center I have.
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Replacement for pulseaudio-dlna on Ubuntu 20.04 to stream music through DLNA

I would like to start music stream to DLNA receiver from Ubuntu 20.04. I have created DLNA server already through Settings/Sharing/Media Sharing and I'm able to connect to it and play media files using DLNA receiver (some Denon network audio…
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Chromecast Audio/PulseAudio-DLNA Lag

I successfully connected a Chromecast audio unit using Pulseaudio-DLNA to my Dell Inspiron 13 7348 running Kubuntu 16.04. However, there is always a 2-5 second lag from when I press to play a sound to the sound coming out of the speakers. Is there…
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Streaming music to Marantz M-CR603

Our stereo installation supports, according to the box, streaming over AirPlay (although the normal RAOP stuff doesn't seem to work on it. I think it's something called Airport Express), DLNA and Windows Media Sharing. On Ubuntu, it seems almost…
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Mirror Ubuntu desktop onto PS3 via wifi (DLNA etc)

I'm looking to mirror my Ubuntu destop onto my TV by using my PS3. All done via wifi. Similar to the 'AirPlay Mirroring' in Mac OS X Mountain Lion. http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#airplay Is this possible? How would I go…
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Minidlna server only appearing after restart

I've got minidlna running, and it seems to be working perfectly, with one catch. The television can't see it when searching for servers. After starting the television and unsuccessfully searching, I can restart the minidlna service, and search again…
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How to specify multiple media_dir in MiniDLNA

I would like to specify multiple media_dir path as below : minidlna.conf media_dir=/path/to/Videos1/ media_dir=/path/to/Videos2/ media_dir=/path/to/Musics1/ media_dir=/path/to/Musics2/ By default it just counts last media_dir line. Is there any way…
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How do I DLNA stream from GNOME to an Xbox One?

Say I have some video files in various formats that I want to stream to my Xbox One. Under Windows, I can choose the Xbox as a “playback device” from the file’s context-menu in Explorer. As far as I understand it, this uses DLNA. However, I am…
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Audio over ethernet

I am not sure whether this is the right place for asking this question, but anyway I would like to give it a try. I want to transport audio over ethernet. I want to do a simple experiment with it. Like from my computer, if I play an audio file, I…
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How can I play media/video files via UPnP/DLNA from command line (DMC/DMP)

I am looking for something like gupnp-av-cp (or any other UPnP capable program/player/conntroller), but from the command line. I would like to pass it a renderer and the URI of the file/resource. It would be nice if it could handle local file…
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Securing mini-dlna?

I've been trying to setup a DLNA service to share my media from my PC to my laptop and occasionally my phone and tablet. After a lot of messing around I found mini-dlna which works well, the problem is, everyone on my network can see my shares and…
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