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Title: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: zener on January 13, 2008, 07:29:28 PM

Has anyone any experience in setting SME Server up to support theses protocols/schemes. I currently use 7.2 as a file server for my home but the inclusion of a PS3 raises the need for a media server compliant with the DLNA.

Any help appreciated.

Ken

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: thomasch on January 14, 2008, 03:38:24 AM

I never install uPNP server on SME Server, but after searching google I am interested in this free uPNP server:

fuppes http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/ (http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/)

and

ushare http://ushare.geexbox.org/ (http://ushare.geexbox.org/)

come back here if you install it successfully and share a how to for us

thomas

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: william_syd on January 14, 2008, 12:00:42 PM

The Dag repo has....

ushare.i386 0:1.0-1.el4.rf

libupnp.i386 0:1.4.2-1.el4.rf

Edit:

Another implimentation - http://mediatomb.cc/

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: tec on January 14, 2008, 02:40:12 PM

Hi,
ushare runs without any Problems. I installed it sometimes ago on SME 7.1 running in Server-Only Mode. I used for my Geexbox-PC in our living Room, the only "drawback" was that the Windows Workstation received an anouncment, that there was an UPNP-Server on the Network but you couldn't see the contest from the windows PC.
Regards Marco

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: CharlieBrady on January 14, 2008, 04:52:49 PM

Quote from: thomasch on January 14, 2008, 03:38:24 AM

I never install uPNP server on SME Server ...

And I never would. The idea of allowing programs running on workstations behind my firewall to adjust the settings of my firewall does not appeal to me.

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: CharlieBrady on January 14, 2008, 08:12:01 PM

Quote from: CharlieBrady on January 14, 2008, 04:52:49 PM

And I never would. The idea of allowing programs running on workstations behind my firewall to adjust the settings of my firewall does not appeal to me.

..., say, by downloading a malicious swf file:

http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/hacking-the-interwebs

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: slords on January 14, 2008, 09:05:43 PM

uPNP A/V is different then the uPNP you are thinking of Charlie.  uPNP A/V allows for Audio/Video devices to discover each other automatically on the same network segment.  It is the standard used by most hardware devices to allow frontend players to automatically discover backend recorders/storage devices.

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: zener on January 15, 2008, 05:45:11 PM

Thanks for the replies guys.
I'm running SME in server only mode - it has no part in internet activities on my network - I use Smoothwall Polar for that  8-).
I'll have a look at some of the suggestions and if I have any success I'll post back with what I did.

Thanks again !

Ken

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: imcintyre on January 15, 2008, 08:21:56 PM

TEC;

Sounds like a how to or an expansion of your comments would be helpful.

Ian

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: Marcoof on January 16, 2008, 09:54:50 PM

Hi !
I'm using twonkymediaserver on sme 7.3.
Works great for me !
Marcoof

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: zener on January 16, 2008, 10:03:13 PM

Is it a contrib or a custom install ? I'd be interested to read how you implemented it.

Ken

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: zener on January 16, 2008, 10:39:14 PM

I found this guide (http://sokoll.net/doku.php/pastimes:computing:sme_server:twonkymedia_on_sme_server_7) for installing Twonky. Seems easy enough, can anyone see any problems with it. Reports claim that it uses a lot of CPU cycles, is this true. I'm running SME on an Athlon 1.6GHz with 512MB and a 320GB Drive.

Ken

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: thomasch on January 17, 2008, 02:32:17 AM

Twonky is not free AFAIK

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: william_syd on January 17, 2008, 03:28:14 AM

Quote from: thomasch on January 17, 2008, 02:32:17 AM

Twonky is not free AFAIK

It is for the first 30 days .... :D

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: Marcoof on January 17, 2008, 12:55:06 PM

I use this guide too.
Work great for me with a pinnacle soundbridge, testing with my gigaset M740...
You have a demo version for 30 days....
My opinion, 30 Eur is not very expensive for a software.
My sme server is a sempron 2400 and 1gb ram.
Best regards,
Marcoof

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: askelon on January 18, 2008, 07:09:10 AM

Twonky isnt overly cpu intensive.  Ive been running it for years on my server (an old Duron 800) with no problems.  I only play music via it though (Netgear MP101). Well worth the price as well btw :)

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: tec on February 03, 2008, 07:12:02 PM

Quote from: imcintyre on January 15, 2008, 08:21:56 PM

TEC;

Sounds like a how to or an expansion of your comments would be helpful.

Ian

Hi Ian,
the Setup was really straightforward:
I enabled the Dag repo, and then installed ushare. After that i had to adjust the the ushare.conf and then start it. An alternative would be to ssh on your server and start ushare manually and then connect via the webinterface and make your adjustments.
http://ushare.geexbox.org/

After that I had to google a bit to find a sys-init startscript and then make all the symlinks.
I noticed the following drawback, when you copy files to the share UPNP-Published Share it will not update the list, therefore the service needs to be restarted via ssh or the webinterface. The webinterface has the drawback that if it is accessible one could change the path of the Published Folder to "/" therefore i locked the webinterface that one could use it.
I am sorry that I cannot offer a better howto, because after a certain time i uninstalled ushare because I got NFS on my SME-Server to work and Geexbox works flawless with Sme-Server.
Hope this will helps, if something remained unclear please ask  :-)

Title: Re: uPNP A/V - DLNA
Post by: sekt on January 17, 2009, 10:29:49 PM

I am trying to instal ushare on sme 7.4, but haw do i start it.
can anyone write a commandline sample.