The Roku Media Player (RMP) is a Roku Device app that can be installed easily via smartphone. There is no server side installation. The sole installation is of the app on the Roku device. Once installed, the RMP appears as just another "channel" on the Roku device, and, once invoked, the RMP makes all HDA shares visible and any . Any suitably formatted videos contained therein are playable via the Roku device. No real difficulty in getting all this to workquickly. (One proviso: I already had miniDLNA installed and I did not try confirm whether the RMP is somehow piggy backing off of the existing MiniDLNA setup (including the settings in the miniDLNA configuration file), or, whether the RMP's functioning is not dependent on the miniDLNA setup.)