What is DLNA? '''[http://www.dlna.org/ Digital Living Network Alliance ]''' (DLNA) is a non-profit organization responsible for defining interoperability guidelines to enable sharing of digital media between multimedia devices. The guidelines are built upon existing public standards.

Amahi has other media server application applications available:

* You can configure its options in the ==== DLNA Configuration File ====The configuration file (a.k.a ".conf" ) has some options that can be configured. Changes can be made to the file inas the "root" user via a "Terminal Session" window using the [http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html vi] or [http://www.nano-editor.org/ nano] editors.

<u>Fedora:</u> /var/hda/apps/dlna/amahi* The ".conf" file is found at:

<blockquote><u>Fedora 19:</u></blockquote> /etc/minidlna.conf <blockquote><u>Ubuntu:</u></blockquote>

* It has some Some Tivo supportcan be enabled. * It picks up new files added automatically (as opposed to uShare)If you edit the minidlna.conf, the minidlna service must be restarted: <blockquote><u>Fedora 19:<br/u></blockquote> systemctl restart minidlna.service * Check the '''log file''' for the app at: ==== DLNA Log File ====

Check the '''log file''' for the app at: <br><br><blockquote><u>Fedora19:</u></blockquote> /tmpvar/minidlnalog/minidlna.log

<blockquote><u>Ubuntu:</u></blockquote>

<blockquote>{{Code| cd /var/hda/files/movies && chown -R USERNAME:users *}}</blockquote>

'''NOTE:'''<br> Some Amahi applications that share the same media files require specific ownership/permissions to media directories and files.

<blockquote>{{Code| cd /var/hda/files/ chown -vR apache:users movies chmod -vR 775 * cd movies chmod -vR 775 *}} ==== DLNA Not Running After Boot-Up ==== This problem may occur on "some" systems after Amahi 7 starts ( see Amahi Dashboard: Setup > Settings > Servers).  * As a "root" user start a "Terminal Session", at the command-line enter: <blockquote><u>Fedora 19:</u></blockquote> systemctl status minidlna.service <blockquote>Response:<pre>minidlna.service - MiniDLNA is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server software Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/minidlna.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2013-08-10 08:46:45 MDT; 16min ago Process: 527 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/minidlna -f /etc/minidlna.conf -P /var/run/minidlna/minidlna.pid (code=exited, status=255)</pre>  * Also somewhere in the "messages" log reveals:  Aug 10 09:20:28 localhost minidlna[526]: [2013/08/10 09:20:28] minidlna.c:753: fatal: No IP address automatically detected! * What does all this mean? When DLNA starts it automatically expects to retrieve the Amahi servers' IP address. DLNA could not get the address as the network services on the server had not yet completed start-up and configuration. * A "systemctl" command can be entered based on the following description:  Enable NetworkManager Wait Online If you have services which fail if they are started before the network is up, you have to use NetworkManager-wait-online.service in addition to the NetworkManager service. This is however hardly ever necessary since most network daemons start up fine, even if the network has not been configured yet.  * To enable NetworkManager Wait Online at startup with the following command:  <blockquote><u>Fedora 19:</u></blockquote> systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online * Enter the following to ensure that DLNA is enabled to start at each system boot: <blockquote><u>Fedora 19:</u></blockquote> systemctl enable minidlna.service

* 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 added a file to the library that forces dlna daemon parser to crash. Check [http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3816 this] out if this is the case.

The VLC Media Player by '''[http://www.videolan.org VideoLAN]''' will connect to a DLNA server on Mac & Linuxvarious '''[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/#download operating system platforms]'''. DLNA integration has substantially improved since VLC version 2.

On Linux you will need the [httpand Windows releases DLNA can be used as follows://www.cybergarage.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/CyberLinkForJava CyberLink UPnP] plugin. If you manage to install it, please report back here!

* Run VLC. On Mac you can click the menu bar select, View, and on the dropdown menu, select playlist.:[[File > Service discovery > :Dlna.vlc_playlist.png‎]] * On the Playlist menu on the left side of VLC select "Universal Plug'n'Play discovery". The Amahi Media Server should appear in the main screen area of VLC.:[[File:Dnla.vlc_upnp.png‎‎]] * Navigate through the Amahi Media Server tree until you find some content to play.:[[File:Dlna.vlc_tree.png‎‎‎]] * Right click on a media file name, when the pop-up menu appears, click on "Play".