DLNA
Working page for Amahi DLNA, the Amahi port of MiniDLNA. It makes your Amahi HDA the best media server for all your clients.
Note that Amahi has other media server apps available as well:
- MediaTomb, which has transcoding on the fly for more compatibility
- PS3 Media Server works well with the xbox360
- UShare works well with the xbox360
There is no list of Amahi Certified DLNA Players because most (99.999%) of clients will work. The client has to support the format of the file that the server is streaming. Not all clients support all the formats. Typically DivX format are widely supported, but newer formats like Matroska may not be supported by some clients.
However, below is a very incomplete list of client devices. Feel free to add your client and what features it supports.
Contents
Tips
- You can configure its options in a text file in:
/var/hda/apps/dlna/amahi.conf
- It has some Tivo support
- It picks up new files added automatically (as opposed to uShare)
- Check the log file for the app at: /tmp/minidlna/minidlna.log
Troubleshooting
- If you have problems where DLNA cannot see some files, it may be due to some permissions issues. You can do this (change the path and USERNAME accordingly):
cd /var/hda/files/movies && chown -R USERNAME:users *
- If you installed too early, uninstall DLNA, uninstall RPM Fusion (Non-free) and RPM Fusion, in that order, refreshing each time the available apps page in your HDA.
- If you suddenly realize that ONLY a part of your library is delivered by your amahi-dlna server to your clients you (most probably) have add a file to the library that forces dlna daemon parser to crash. Check this out if this is the case.
WD TV Live
At the moment, with a WD TV Live player, we can stream from .avi files to full 1080p content from this server.
With Matroska files it also supports subtitles in various languages and multiple audio tracks.
PS3
Notes on working state with PS3.
Playing avi and mkv files (mostly with h.264 content) worked great! Video seems to be working nicely!
Playing of mp3-files has been no problem - worked fine.
Xbox 360
Notes on working state with Xbox 360:
- Install Amahi-dlna
- Turn on Xbox 360 and Navigate to My Xbox
- Scroll to the right until you see Music Library
- Hit "A" on your controller.
- Amahi should be one of your choices if amahi-dlna was installed correctly.
Repeat for Picture Library.
O!Play Air
Notes on working state with O!Play Air
Samsung TV with Media@ capability
The TV will play all media (pictures, music, movies) over WLAN/LAN, in TVs like the Samsung with Media@ features, no problem.
Windows Media Center
Windows 7 (Ultimate pre-release) Media Center will display pictures and play music. Video doesn't work.
Windows Media Player 11
On Windows 7 the Windows Media Player 11 shows successfully the Amahi-Server. On Windows XP this doesn't work.
VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player will connect to DLNA on Mac & Linux.
On Linux you will need the CyberLink UPnP plugin. If you manage to install it, please report back here!
On Mac you can click on File > Service discovery > Universal Plug'n'Play discovery.
4u2stream
The client which is available at http://4u2stream.4u2sites.com works under windows xp.
Moxi
Music, video, and pictures all work perfectly on Moxi. Go to Media Link on the Moxi menu, and Amahi shows up in the list of media servers, complete with a Penguin for the logo.
TerraTec NOXON iRadio
Working, no changes are needed, by default a server called Amahi appears in the list of the home menu.
FAQs
- Q: Does it support Matroska (.mkv) files?: Yes!
- Q: Can it stream .iso files?: Nope
- Q: Can it stream full DVDs: Nope, only the VOB files
- Q: Does it have support for album art and covers?: Yes!
- Q: Does it have support for subtitles?: Yes!
- Q: Does it transcode on the fly while streaming?: Nope
- Q: I added additional share locations into the config file but they do not appear!: try removing files.db under /tmp/minidlna/ and restarting the amahi-dlna service
Playlists
TBD
Update to latest minidlna
App's screenshot and logo
