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by '''northridgegrp''' <br>
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Working page for [http://www.amahi.org/apps/dlna Amahi DLNA], the Amahi port of [http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/ MiniDLNA]. It makes your Amahi HDA the best media server for all your clients.
'''NOTE:''' The majority of the guidance here is specific to Fedora and may not apply to Ubuntu. We hope to revise soon.
# The majority of the guidance here is specific to Fedora and may not apply to Ubuntu. We hope to revise soon.
# DLNA does not support server "file transcoding" on the fly.
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Amahi has other media server apps available as well:
* [http://www.amahi.org/apps/mediatomb MediaTomb], which has transcoding on the fly for more compatibility
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 [http://www.divx.com/ DivX] format are widely supported, but newer formats like [http://www.matroska.org/ Matroska] may not be supported by some clients.
In the cases where the clients cannot support a video format utility software on a client workstation can be used transcoding.
* Linux: [http://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake]
* MS-Windows: [http://www.pcfreetime.com/ Format Factory]
* Portable MS-Windows: [http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?q=xmedia&m= XMedia Recode]
'''Definition:''' transcoding
The direct digital-to-digital data conversion of one encoding format to another, such as video or audio
data files. Such as cases where a "target" device does not support a source format.
However, below is a very incomplete list of client devices. Feel free to add your client and what features it supports.
