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Businesses are storing their data on the network for ages now, but the past few years, there has been a trend in home networking to put all content on a central server and distributing it to the home computers and dedicated appliances on the network. This page offers an overview of the possible packages to stream digital media (video, audio and images, and in several cases also online content) from your server to your clients. | Businesses are storing their data on the network for ages now, but the past few years, there has been a trend in home networking to put all content on a central server and distributing it to the home computers and dedicated appliances on the network. This page offers an overview of the possible packages to stream digital media (video, audio and images, and in several cases also online content) from your server to your clients. | ||
− | == | + | == Servers == |
− | === | + | === DLNA / uPNP === |
− | + | There are many uPNP or DLNA-compliant server and you can use Mpd too. Some of the them do not get along together. If you are experiencing problems, make sure you are not running two of them at the same time. | |
− | + | * [[MediaTomb]] | |
− | + | * [[Minidlna]] | |
− | + | * [[Rygel]] | |
+ | * [[PS3 Mediaserver]] | ||
+ | * [[Plex]] | ||
+ | * [http://coherence.beebits.net Coherence ] - Fairly new server, implemented in Python. Should be handling transcoding in the svn-version. Looked very promising, but development seems to have stalled somehow. | ||
+ | * [http://www.universalmediaserver.com/ Universal Media Server] - A DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server | ||
− | + | ==== Deprecated / No Longer in Development ==== | |
+ | * [[uShare]] | ||
+ | * [http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/ Fuppes] | ||
− | === | + | === MPD === |
− | + | * [[Mpd]] | |
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=== uPNP / DLNA === | === uPNP / DLNA === | ||
− | + | * [[VLC media player]], via View -> Playlist -> Local Network (in left sidebar) -> Universal Plug'n'Play | |
− | + | * [[XBMC]] | |
− | + | * [[Plex]] | |
− | + | * [http://oss.linn.co.uk/trac/wiki/Kinsky Kinsky] |
Revision as of 22:48, 1 December 2013
Businesses are storing their data on the network for ages now, but the past few years, there has been a trend in home networking to put all content on a central server and distributing it to the home computers and dedicated appliances on the network. This page offers an overview of the possible packages to stream digital media (video, audio and images, and in several cases also online content) from your server to your clients.
Contents
Servers
DLNA / uPNP
There are many uPNP or DLNA-compliant server and you can use Mpd too. Some of the them do not get along together. If you are experiencing problems, make sure you are not running two of them at the same time.
- MediaTomb
- Minidlna
- Rygel
- PS3 Mediaserver
- Plex
- Coherence - Fairly new server, implemented in Python. Should be handling transcoding in the svn-version. Looked very promising, but development seems to have stalled somehow.
- Universal Media Server - A DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server
Deprecated / No Longer in Development
MPD
Clients
uPNP / DLNA
- VLC media player, via View -> Playlist -> Local Network (in left sidebar) -> Universal Plug'n'Play
- XBMC
- Plex
- Kinsky