Setup DLNA server

We use miniDLNA from http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/

Version used in this write up is minidlna_1.0.22_src.tar.gz

At the build box, install these packages:

apt-get -t squeeze-backports install libavformat53 \
 libflac8 libvorbisfile3 libid3tag0 sqlite3 libexif12 \
 libavformat-dev libflac-dev libid3tag0-dev libsqlite3-dev \
 libexif-dev libjpeg62-dev uuid-dev libvorbis-dev

tar zxvf minidlna_1.0.22_src.tar.gz
cd minidlna-1.0.22/
make

If ok, strip the executable:

strip minidlna

Move the resulting executable and config files, linux/minidlna.init.d.script, minidlna and minidlna.conf, to voyage box.

# after rsync'd to voyage box /tmp
cd /tmp
mv minidlna.init.d.script /etc/init.d/minidlna
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/minidlna

chmod 700 minidlna
mv minidlna /usr/sbin/minidlna

chmod 644 minidlna.conf
mv minidlna.conf /etc/ 

insserv minidlna 

Init script modification for working with minissdpd:

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          minidlna
# Required-Start:    $network $local_fs $remote_fs minissdpd
# Required-Stop::    $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start:      $all
# Should-Stop:       $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: DLNA/UPnP-AV media server
### END INIT INFO

Init script modification for media on usbhd:

MEDIA_DIR=/mnt/usbhd/dlna_media
test -d $MEDIA_DIR || exit 0

Sample config for ruuning with usb hd:

# File: /etc/minidlna.conf

# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200

# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
network_interface=br0

# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
#   can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
#   + "A" for audio  (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
#   + "V" for video  (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
#   + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=/mnt/usbhd/dlna_media

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=Voyage Server

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
db_dir=/mnt/usbhd/minidlna_db

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
log_dir=/var/log

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no

# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
#   which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.
strict_dlna=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=300

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=20110921
model_number=1

# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket
#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

# use different container as root of the tree
# possible values:
#   + "." - use standard container (this is the default)
#   + "B" - "Browse Directory"
#   + "M" - "Music"
#   + "V" - "Video"
#   + "P" - "Pictures"
# if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root
#root_container=.