Looking for some way to have access to videos, image and music to this wonderful lg tv we bought a few years ago, but also to be able to link computer, android phone and that TV, I thought I needed to set up a media server and could install some media clients. My impression was that this would be simple to link this way computer and/or an external attached hdd, smartphone and television.
This was not the case, until beny and cttan gavesome cues on how to do so. Under porteus-slackware you just need to build minidlna for your computer with slackbuild (sbo):
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root@porteus:~# usm -g libid3tag
root@porteus:~# usm sbo -b minidlna
1.0 Server side.
Under porteus minidlna from alien bob repo did not work because of too many missing dependencies:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbu ... lna/pkg64/
Instructions to get minidlna running under slackware:
http://www.mbse.eu/linux/homeserver/extra/minidlna/
Instructions to get minidlna under other distributions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MiniDLNA#Global
http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlnawebmin/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MiniDLNA
http://www.htpcbeginner.com/install-and ... tu-1204/2/
Commands to start and stop minidlna would not work on my installation:
http://www.mbse.eu/linux/homeserver/extra/minidlna/
2.0 Client side.
Fooling around to get some app on this motorola moto g smartphone of mine, many would be available:
http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best- ... lna-server
However, the most interesting features would ask for the paying version or the advertisement was so well placed that you could trigged the download of some cheap and dull games on the phone. There is a lot of them and amongst others:
http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best- ... lna-server
Searching a little more you get Banshee, Amarok, VLC, XBMC; XMBC reported to be the best choice under linux:
http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/08/5-an ... lling.html
So vlc remote on the smartphone could be used to get the content of the minidlna server. I never was able to get it going. It seems that you need the paying application to do that:
The free version of this app is not a very good choice since most basic features remain locked and you need to pay up to unlock.
Though vlc on the linux box seems to do a good job:
http://superuser.com/questions/191736/h ... lna-server
3.0 Other options:
Additional hyperlink on streaming tv:
Set top box comparison:
Comparison of set-top boxes
Comparison of UPnP AV media servers:
Comparison of UPnP AV media servers
Has some of you been able to install media server and it corresponding media clients on different devices? How do you do?
4.0 minidlna works on ubuntu it seems:
http://www.conrad.id.au/2012/06/quick-t ... buntu.html
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Note 1: For those of you interested, at this present moment the motorola moto g might be the best buy on the market according to the quality price ratio, compared to more performing devices:
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compar ... /8208,8148
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones ... /review/11
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/ ... vs-nexus-5
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/motorola-moto-g-1129
Note 2: Installation instructions for xmbc on slackware, this seems at first sight after testing minidlna a better alternative:
http://slaxbmc.blogspot.ca/2012/10/slax ... n-101.html
http://osarena.net/logismiko/applicatio ... kware.html