DLNA

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Working page for Amahi DLNA, the Amahi port of MiniDLNA. It makes your Amahi HDA the best media server for all your clients. (NOTE: we have another media server called UShare)

Tips

  • You need the two RPMFusion apps installed before this one for things to work.
  • You can configure it's 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)

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.

I've placed two different HD files on my Amahi-Server. The Amahi-Server was found by the playstation without problems but unfortunately the PS3 (slim) wasn't able to play the files. The first one has been an mkv-file with mpeg4 (h264) codec and the second one was an avi-file with mpeg4 (h264). Both had 1280x720 pixels.

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.

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.

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

 

 

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