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Martin Hope
JanW
Asked: 2020-04-30 13:06:15 +0800 CST
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I would like to start music stream to DLNA receiver from Ubuntu 20.04.

I have created DLNA server already through Settings/Sharing/Media Sharing and I'm able to connect to it and play media files using DLNA receiver (some Denon network audio player), but I'm not able to "trigger" music play from Ubuntu side.

I found, that pulseaudio-dlna package would probably resolve my problem, but it looks like the newest supported Ubuntu version is 17.04. What are the alternatives?

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Martin Hope
barrymac
Asked: 2020-01-10 09:45:55 +0800 CST
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I'm trying to use Rygel as a dlna/upnp server and renderer on a ubuntu laptop. It is not able to see anything on the network, and no other dlna software discovers it. There are other working dlna / upnp devices so I believe I can rule out the router.

Running in debug mode at the command line like this:

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all rygel -g 5

there are lines containing messages like this:

New network MY_SSID (wlp4s0) context available. IP: 192.168.8.127

which is the correct network, wifi card and ip address

In the config file the network setting is:

interface=

output from lsof filtering for my lan 

lsof -i -P -n | grep 192.168.8| grep rygel

returns

rygel     25313           barry   14u  IPv4 25790052      0t0  UDP 192.168.8.127:1900 
rygel     25313           barry   16u  IPv4 25790055      0t0  UDP 192.168.8.127:37931 
rygel     25313           barry   44u  IPv4 25790056      0t0  TCP 192.168.8.127:41671 (LISTEN)

If I run another local client then it will show up on the that, so only localhost discovery works.

I have tried setting the network device to the network card in use, but it made no difference. I have not changed any other rygel config settings.

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Martin Hope
Steven
Asked: 2013-03-04 06:39:26 +0800 CST
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I have been enjoying the MiniDLNA server on my Ubuntu box for a while now. It works very well with XBox and a cheap Magnavox Blue-ray player that I bought.

Now I am wanting to start uploading media to my server but when I try my devices all come back with the error that uploading is not supported. Does anyone know of a DLNA server that works with mkv, mp4, avi and supports upload to the server?

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Martin Hope
user74039
Asked: 2013-02-25 10:20:05 +0800 CST
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I've been trying to setup a DLNA service to share my media from my PC to my laptop and occasionally my phone and tablet. After a lot of messing around I found mini-dlna which works well, the problem is, everyone on my network can see my shares and I don't want this. Does anyone have a way of securing it? I thought maybe using iptables but I don't have any experience with it and I don't want to setup a whole load of firewall exceptions for everything that I have running on the PC such as ssh and web servers etc, I'd want to just restrict DLNA access. I use DHCP reservations for my devices.

Or is DLNA the wrong way to do it? Is there a better solution? I don't care about windows clients, just Linux and Android. I want to stream audio and video.

Also, if DLNA is the best way, can anyone recommend a Linux client? I can get clients in Android streaming fine, it's just the security issue, I can't find a working client in Linux though, VLC doesn't work, it sees my server but clicking it, double clicking it, adding to playlist doesn't do anything.

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Martin Hope
Richard Paul
Asked: 2012-02-19 15:19:37 +0800 CST
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I'm looking to mirror my Ubuntu destop onto my TV by using my PS3. All done via wifi. Similar to the 'AirPlay Mirroring' in Mac OS X Mountain Lion. http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#airplay

Is this possible? How would I go about it. To be clear, I don't want to share movies in particular, rather to send my screen exactly as I see it.

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