Mediatomb vs. MiniDLNA

I have been using Mediatomb for nearly two years now but I decided to give MiniDLNA a whirl since it is a fully fledged DLNA server whereas Mediatomb is UPnP only. I am currently running both Mediatomb SVN and MiniDLNA CVS. So, how does MiniDLNA compare to Mediatomb?

MiniDLNA is easier to compile, configure, uses less [...]

PS3, Mediatomb, Multi Zone Music streaming

PlayStation 3 firmware 3.00 added a new feature I was very excited about, multi-av output.
Today I finally got round to re-wiring the home cinema system to make use of this new feature. I now have the PS3 streaming music from Mediatomb with my A/V receiver sending audio to Zone 1 via digital inter connects and [...]

IMDB Film Summary as a MPEG2 video

If you’ve read my blog before you’ll know I run Mediatomb DLNA server with my PS3 as the client, You’ll also know I am working towards importing my entire DVD collection into my Mediatomb server. However, my wife wants to know something about each film in the library without having to dig out the DVD [...]

Converting Matroska to M2TS for PS3 and Mediatomb

It has been a while since I last posted, mainly due to not having Internet access at home for a month
Anyway, I’m online again and I have been tinkering with various projects the most recent of which is Matroska conversion (again).  For sometime I have been converting Martoska files to MPEG-4 with AAC [...]

Mediatomb 0.12 – Streaming audio and video around the house

Mediatomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface, it allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices, such as the PS3 in my case. Mediatomb 0.12 is not yet released as final yet but it [...]

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