So ,,,,,,I and at least one other @hear use minidlna for media serving ,,,,,,,,now I just set the minimal in the minidlna.conf ,,,that is the paths to the directories containing the media I wanted to serve up on the LAN .
the problem I was having ,,,,and not rely a problem so to speak , (but I wanted more,,mainstream access to the media) ,, was that only 2 app's on my laptop would give me easy access to the content ,,,and that was kodi and Kmplayer.
VLC's UPnP would just sit their for ever and not load anything in the play list.
Now comes the app "djmount" ,,,,,it's in the standard repo
it's usage is as simple as
it then mount's the UPnP complaint media server it finds to the directory in the path specified.
Now I am not sure if it was because of my "minimal" editing of the /etc/minidlna.conf (I will do further testing on this) or what ,but using dolphin to go to the directory I used for the mount did not show anything .
UNITILL ,,,,,I did a ls (in dolphin's terminal panel) and saw the server name , then did a cd into it ,,,,then , poof it all appeared in dolphin .
once that was done ,,,,all media acted as if part of the local file system ,,,as in I could rite click a media file and "open with" any application in the list vlc, QMplay2,Amarok ,,,whatever .
nice I think
VINNY
the problem I was having ,,,,and not rely a problem so to speak , (but I wanted more,,mainstream access to the media) ,, was that only 2 app's on my laptop would give me easy access to the content ,,,and that was kodi and Kmplayer.
VLC's UPnP would just sit their for ever and not load anything in the play list.
Now comes the app "djmount" ,,,,,it's in the standard repo
Code:
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt show djmount Package: djmount Version: 0.71-7 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Dario Minnucci <midget@debian.org> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 172 kB Depends: fuse, libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (>= 2.8.1), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), libupnp6 (>= 1:1.6.6) Homepage: http://djmount.sourceforge.net/ Download-Size: 60.8 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages Description: file system client for mounting network media servers This package provides a client for Universal Plug'n'Play (UPnP) Audio-Visual MediaServers. It discovers all compatible UPnP AV devices on the network automatically and mounts their media content as a file system using FUSE.
Code:
djmount /path/to/a/directory
Now I am not sure if it was because of my "minimal" editing of the /etc/minidlna.conf (I will do further testing on this) or what ,but using dolphin to go to the directory I used for the mount did not show anything .
UNITILL ,,,,,I did a ls (in dolphin's terminal panel) and saw the server name , then did a cd into it ,,,,then , poof it all appeared in dolphin .
once that was done ,,,,all media acted as if part of the local file system ,,,as in I could rite click a media file and "open with" any application in the list vlc, QMplay2,Amarok ,,,whatever .
nice I think
VINNY