March 8, 201016 yr Hey guys. long time watcher first time poster? hah. I just purchased a samsung UN55B8000 LED 55" tv.. Wow Anyway. I am moving from a 4TB server in a tower to a Norco 4220 raid setup. much bigger etc. as I will be upgrading all my media to the 720p or hopefully as much 1080 as I can get. I was looking for options. This lovely little tv has network access, as well as plays every media format I currently use. I am having ahard time figuring out exactly HOW it access's data off a network pc. but apparantly I can share drives to it. I'm starting to wonder if Unraid will give me the access? and was hoping someone knows how the samsung access's my pc. Having a hard time figuring this out. Any advice would be great! thanks Shawn p.s. love unraid
March 8, 201016 yr Well, not sure what you want from your post but going by the title you want a DLNA media server. You can use mediatomb or ps3mediaserver. Search the forums for these. Mediatomb is a little more difficult to set up but can do whatever you can dream up and ps3mediaserver is designed with the ps3 in mind (ps3 doesn't support mkv container etc so I think this program transcodes those by default). Anyway, you can install those on your unraid or do what I do - Have another computer with these programs and then just set them to use the unraid share. Search the forums, there are long threads on how to use each one.
March 9, 201016 yr Hey guys. long time watcher first time poster? hah. I just purchased a samsung UN55B8000 LED 55" tv.. Wow Anyway. I am moving from a 4TB server in a tower to a Norco 4220 raid setup. much bigger etc. as I will be upgrading all my media to the 720p or hopefully as much 1080 as I can get. I was looking for options. This lovely little tv has network access, as well as plays every media format I currently use. I am having ahard time figuring out exactly HOW it access's data off a network pc. but apparantly I can share drives to it. I'm starting to wonder if Unraid will give me the access? and was hoping someone knows how the samsung access's my pc. Having a hard time figuring this out. Any advice would be great! thanks Shawn p.s. love unraid Did you try the software that came with the tv? I have the 8500 series and it came with its own software.
March 9, 201016 yr Author I have said software. just not sure if its something i can install to unraid? A second pc would ruin my purpose of having a tv that plays all that media. i havnt tried a 9gb 1080 movie on it yet. we will see if it can handle that. let alone stream it As for those softwares. Thanks I will start looking at how to make my unraid a dlna server. If that is infact what I am looking for. Shawn
March 9, 201016 yr You may look into installing MiniDLNA on unRAID. Reportedly that works well with Samsung TVs.
March 9, 201016 yr Author oh nice find. Thank you Doesnt seem to work on large files. but a good start for now. Thanks
April 8, 201016 yr You may look into installing MiniDLNA on unRAID. Reportedly that works well with Samsung TVs. Hi. Can you elaborate a little bit more on how to get MiniDLNA installed on unRAID? Is it as simple as invoking installpkg in the Go script? Thanks in advance.
April 8, 201016 yr First you'll have to compile the MiniDLNA source, and make a Slackware install package. Bummer. I guess I won't be using it... Thanks for the quick response!
April 8, 201016 yr It's compiled statically. I don't think it has to be compiled. It has to be extracted manually, then set up to be run from the go script. I don't know how it uses any configuration files.
April 8, 201016 yr It's compiled statically. I don't think it has to be compiled. It has to be extracted manually, then set up to be run from the go script. I don't know how it uses any configuration files. You don't need to compile it, just extract with gunzip and tar, then edit the .conf file to suit your needs. From what I saw, it used /opt as the root of that it shared. That would have to change to /mnt/user There was no documentation on how to configure it on the sourceforge site that I could find. Anybody know more about this? Joe L.
April 8, 201016 yr Awesome news! I'll try playing around with it once this large file copy is done. Thanks guys.
May 28, 201016 yr Any update on this? I have a Samsung LCD that can play tons of file via DLNA. I am considering miniDLNA has anyone gotten that to work?
May 28, 201016 yr I heavily looked into getting minidlna working couldn't get it to "search" my files. But I got mediatomb working via this how to: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3532 mediatomb works great for anyone with a samsung and dlna.
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