Universal Media Server on Kubuntu 15.10?

[wrender]

Curious if anyone had luck installing and running UMS on Kubuntu 15.10?

I can't seem to find anyone talking about it on the internet.

[vinnywright]

you should all ready have and be running minidlnad I think it's default.

MINIDLNAD(1)                         General Commands Manual                        MINIDLNAD(1)

NAME
     minidlnad — lightweight DLNA/UPnP-AV server

SYNOPSIS
     minidlnad [-f config_file] [-d] [-v] [-u user] [-i interface] [-p port] [-s serial]
               [-m model_number] [-t notify_interval] [-P pid_filename] [-w url] [-S] [-L] [-R]

     minidlnad [-h | -V]

DESCRIPTION
     The minidlnad daemon is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server sharing media files (video, music and pic‐
     tures) to clients on your network. Clients are typically multimedia players such as vlc,
     totem and xbmc, and devices such as portable media players, smartphones, televisions, video
     game entertainment systems and blu-ray players.

     By default, minidlnad listens on all the network interfaces (except loopback) for clients.
     This behavior can be changed on the command-line using the -i option, or in the configura‐
     tion file through the network_interface option (see minidlna.conf(5) for details).

look to @hear to set it up

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MiniDLNA

to see if it's running on your system
do a

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ sudo netstat -tunap | grep minidlnad
[sudo] password for vinny: 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8200            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      946/minidlnad   
udp        0      0 239.255.255.250:1900    0.0.0.0:*                           946/minidlnad   
udp        0      0 192.168.2.5:56327       0.0.0.0:*                           946/minidlnad

yup it's running ,,,,,,,,

type your LAN IP address +port 8200 in your web browsers location bar and hit enter,,,, @hear that would be "192.168.2.5:8200" and you will see it's "status" page.

VINNY

[wrender]

Oh I did not know that, I'll try it out when I get home tonight.

Thanks!

[wrender]

Looks like it is not installed by default.

wren@wren76:~$ minidlnad
The program 'minidlnad' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install minidlna

[wrender]

I Installed MiniDLNA and seems to work with my LG WebOS Smart Tv so far. I will have to test it further to better understand the limits of it.

[Spadge]

No, because I love Plex too much.

[vinnywright]

Aaaaa I found where it came from ,,,,,,,,,,, I always add the "kipi-plugins" ,,,,and minidlna is a "recommends" of that,,,,,,and apt-get defaults to installing the recommends of a package.

so I wind up seeing it in all my installations and so thought it was a default package ,,,,,OoPsy



VINNY

[wrender]

Wow I'm impressed MiniDLNA actually streams mkv's to the LG WebOS tv.

[vinnywright]

Wow I'm impressed MiniDLNA actually streams mkv's to the LG WebOS tv.

Nice,,,,,,glad it's working well for you .

I have never tried it ,,,,,,I have no knead for a streaming server as I just make the TV my monitor , it's close enough to my computers in the living room for one HDMI cable to go to a desktop and one cable to the laptop ,,,,,,,,all my media is accessible.

VINNY

[Spadge]

Seriously, if you have a smart TV that has a Plex client available for it give Plex a go on the server.

I've used minidlna and Serviio (for years) and whilst both are handy, neither one touches Plex on UI or video playback quality. And it comes with a dlna server in case your TV's client won't handle the direct play of weird mkvs.