I've used serviio with good results for a couple of years. But it's only free as in beer if that matters.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Corey Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Robert Merrill <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Friday, July 11, 2014, Corey Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > UPnP is a protocol designed for this. > > > > > > Is UPnP for that or is it DLNA ...perhaps transported by UPnP? > > > > I suppose I've never looked that closely, just that MediaTomb says it's a > UPnP server. According to Wikipedia: > > DLNA uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management, > discovery and control. UPnP defines the type of device that > DLNA supports ("server", "renderer", "controller") and the > mechanisms for accessing media over a network. The DLNA > guidelines then apply a layer of restrictions over the types > of media file format, encodings and resolutions that a device > must support. > > Either way, I've been happy with MediaTomb. My one complaint is that my > server isn't beefy enough to do realtime re-encoding. > > For an Android client, Skifta seems pretty good. > > Corey > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
